I have my Acer Al1916W pluged into the back of my lap top and I can not get this set up to run on both screens. When the Acer monitor is turned on it appears to work - the "acer" name comes up and then the words "no signal". As soon as no signal comes on the sceen it goes to black and the light turns orange. The Dell D610 screen runs just fine.
Have you used the Fn button on your laptop and changed the video display Icon on the Blue Function keys. You need to change the display wait a few seconds for it to take affect. There are several modes try them all so you know how to use them.
Also try right clicking the desktop and selecting "Properties".
From there go to the "Settings" tab.
Then click on monitor 2.
Just below the screen resolution section select "Extend my desktop to this monitor."
Then "Apply"
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Thanks Stabelable, for the idea but I do a lot of power point presentaion for work so I did try the Fn F8 key (it is a Dell D610) to find the second screen but after many attempts I gave up.
I also tryed solution 2 from the box modder but this had no effect, but thanks for the tip.
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