Is it possible to hook up two or more external monitors to a Lenovo T400 laptop?
Is it possible to hook up two or more external monitors to a Lenovo T400 laptop?
This laptop only has one external analog monitor port.
Is it possible (by using a one port to two port analog monitor adapter cable or some other type of hardware) to connect two or more external monitors up to this Lenovo T400 laptop (so that each external monitor and the laptops internal LCD monitor) will have its own independent display?
The operating system is Windows 7 64 bit.
This laptop only has one external analog monitor port.
Is it possible (by using a one port to two port analog monitor adapter cable or some other type of hardware) to connect two or more external monitors up to this Lenovo T400 laptop (so that each external monitor and the laptops internal LCD monitor) will have its own independent display?
The operating system is Windows 7 64 bit.
u have Graphics: ATI Mobility Radeon 3470 w/ 256MB (hybrid switching) , so it should be fine
You can use a video splitter for your external monitors. Such as the one listed here.
http://www.buy.com/prod/svga-monitor-video-y-splitter-cable-for-vga-to-dual-2/q/sellerid/23270115/loc/101/212966732.html
From there through your video options you can select "Clone", "Independent", etc. Usually you can do this through your installed video driver (such as NVIDIA). You simply right click an open area on your desktop and select the NVIDIA display options. I don't believe that the laptop LCD will have it's own independent display with this option though.
http://www.buy.com/prod/svga-monitor-video-y-splitter-cable-for-vga-to-dual-2/q/sellerid/23270115/loc/101/212966732.html
From there through your video options you can select "Clone", "Independent", etc. Usually you can do this through your installed video driver (such as NVIDIA). You simply right click an open area on your desktop and select the NVIDIA display options. I don't believe that the laptop LCD will have it's own independent display with this option though.
A simple Y-cable as suggested above does NOT provide two independent displays. It simply lets the SAME display be received on two monitors.
You can connect two different displays to your external port using a Matrox Dual-Head-2-Go or Triple-Head-2-Go (in dual mode), depending on the resolutions you need to set for your monitors. [The Triple-Head-2-Go has better support for widescreen resolutions.]
You can connect two different displays to your external port using a Matrox Dual-Head-2-Go or Triple-Head-2-Go (in dual mode), depending on the resolutions you need to set for your monitors. [The Triple-Head-2-Go has better support for widescreen resolutions.]
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Great info.
However, if you get the regular advanced dock and put a good pci-e card in it, what your trying to do is possible.
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-61232.html