Need help with laptop and tv display

[Ernie]

I have XP and Hoster 507.05. I have a dedicated laptop for Hoster, Microstudio and Keyrite. I was having a lot of trouble with Hoster, so I put the laptop back to the way it was when I bought it. After that, Hoster was running fantastic. This evening I took my laptop downstairs to set it up for Saturdays party. Before I start, I made all the changes to the laptop before installing Hoster. Now, when I turned on the laptop, the desktop is smaller then the screen. About 1 inch of space on each end and about 2 and a half inches of space on the top and bottom. When I open Hoster, it's the same size!?? When I double click the black screen in the upper right, the whole laptop screen and the tv screen are black. When I double click the black screen on the laptop, it goes back to Hoster and the screen is still small. I've found, the way to play a song is to start it in Hoster, then very quickly double click the small upper right black screen. When I do this, the tv looks all black with the karaoke words playing as they should....But, The whole screen on the laptop looks the same as the tv. Again, I did setup everything on the laptop before installing Hoster. Any Ideas???

Thanks, Ernie

[Roy Dennis]

If you have nvidea graphics it sounds like you have altered some settings there, try this:
Right click the blank area of screen, select properties, then settings tab, then the advanced button probably near the bottom. then select the GeForce tab at the top, a dialog should pop out to one side, click the + sign next to Geforce to expand it, then select flat panel settings, the main dialog should now show some radio buttons, if it is set to centered output that is your problem change it to "Display adapter scaling, then press apply and OK. Now check to see if your desktop fills the screen, you may have to reboot to finish this.
Let us know if that solves that part first, if it does but you are seeing the same picture on both screens let us know and I'll try and guide you on that.

If you don't have nvidea graphics it would be different.

[Ernie]

Roy,
I brought the laptop back upstairs and everything is running normally. Okay, In settings, it shows two screens. Number 1 screen under Display: 1. (Multiple Monitors) on ATI MOBILITY RADEON Xpress 200 Series, In ADVANCED, it has several tabs, which are... Color, OpenGL, Direct3D, Options, Overlay, POWERPLAY(tm), VPU Recover, General, Adapter, Monitor, Troubleshoot, Color Management, Displays. I hope one of these tabs do the same thing.

Thanks Roy,
Ernie

[Roy Dennis]

I have ATI on my Windows 7 computer but it is different to that.
What I don't understand is you say it works alright upstairs but not downstairs

All I can think of is something to do with the upstairs extended monitor must be different to the downstairs one, is one and old style TV or a computer monitor and the other a flat panel LCD with high definition or plasma ?

Are you connecting them both with the same type of connection lead ?
What sort of connection are you using ? (HDMI, Video RCA, S-Video or Converter box of some type).

It may be to do with the resolution setting on monitor 2.
when your in the dialog where you see the 2 screens side by side select the second monitor and try changing the resolution for that monitor, it should show the resolution with a drop down box for selecting alternatives, also make sure it is set to extend these displays.

Then when you select monitor 1 check the resolution showing for that and if it shows a black border on your laptop try altering the resolution.

I'm off to bed now so can't answer any more till tomorrow.

[Ernie]

Roy,
Sorry, but I didn't explain the situation well enough. Downstairs we have a finished basement where my karaoke equipment and tv for karaoke is. In the basement I hook up my laptop with Hoster to my equipment and tv. Upstairs on the first floor I have a study. I don't have a tv in the study. Basically, when I hook up my laptop or Hoster to a tv I have trouble. When I open Hoster with just the laptop and no tv connection, I get a full screen on my laptop and Hoster works fine. Hope this explains it.

Thanks,
Ernie

[Roy Dennis]

Right, I think I know the problem now. It is to do with your laptop screen resolution settings. I set my laptop to 800 x 600 and it displays as you describe with a black border on laptop but only when connected to extended laptop.
So you must increase your laptops screen resolution settings. As you are on XP you may have to do this different to me as I am doing it on windows 7. In my case I click on blank area of desktop and select screen resolution from pop up window, you may have to choose properties then settings or something else but you need to come to the screen as shown here or simalar: http://forum.mtu.com/attachment.php?...8&d=1350471268

And change the resolution to a higher setting.
I demonstrate it in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmPXO...ature=youtu.be

If you want to view video on setting up the show display watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGbavLnNdGc