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Just for anyone upgrading to Windows 8...
Dual monitor displays don't actually work on Windows 8. At least not these ones.
I let it update the drivers to the correct ones and rebooted it twice. It shows the correct drivers for the card.
It does show the desktop background on the second monitor and all the options are available including "Extend these displays" so it all looks like it ought to work. If you click "Identify" it draws a "1" on one and a "2" on the other. It's clearly recognising them as two distinct displays.
Except that when you move the mouse to the far right of monitor 1 it does disappear but it never does reappear on monitor 2. You cannot drag a window from the first to the second, the right edge of the first one is the extent of the display.
So the second one sits there looking pretty with a picture of the desktop, but it doesn't actually *do* anything. You can't actually bring anything up on it. A search doesn't turn up very much since I reckon about five people* in the world have upgraded to Windows 8 so far so it's not a commonly reported issue.
Sexy though Windows 8 is, I think I'll put off rebuilding the machine and migrating for a little while longer.
Working nicely with Win 7 though.
* I concede that it might be slightly more than this.
Dual monitor displays don't actually work on Windows 8. At least not these ones.
I let it update the drivers to the correct ones and rebooted it twice. It shows the correct drivers for the card.
It does show the desktop background on the second monitor and all the options are available including "Extend these displays" so it all looks like it ought to work. If you click "Identify" it draws a "1" on one and a "2" on the other. It's clearly recognising them as two distinct displays.
Except that when you move the mouse to the far right of monitor 1 it does disappear but it never does reappear on monitor 2. You cannot drag a window from the first to the second, the right edge of the first one is the extent of the display.
So the second one sits there looking pretty with a picture of the desktop, but it doesn't actually *do* anything. You can't actually bring anything up on it. A search doesn't turn up very much since I reckon about five people* in the world have upgraded to Windows 8 so far so it's not a commonly reported issue.
Sexy though Windows 8 is, I think I'll put off rebuilding the machine and migrating for a little while longer.
Working nicely with Win 7 though.
* I concede that it might be slightly more than this.























