Display Adapter

My old iMac would be perfect as a monitor and I can't believe I have to throw it away! I have an old iMac (mid 2011) and it's no use as a computer anymore (understandably) but I really want to use it as an extra monitor because the display is still fabulous. It worked on an old Macbook Pro via...

Hello Ladies and Gentlemen. I just have bought a 240hz monitor with G-sync. But I dont know If I am able to use that 240hz @1080p with g-sync. As you know G-sync is only supported via Display port and unfortunately there is no a Display Port outpu on my laptop (I guees there is no any laptop...

I recently brought a mi notebook pro 2019 from china and i reinstalled windows eng because default was a chinese version. i dont know what is the problem but nvidia driver is not installing its showing error and nvidia driver is not being recognized in display adapters too. please help me the...

Hi, I currently have a windows 10 gaming PC with 1 monitor which uses a display port. I was wondering if I could use my 2015 Macbook Air (which has a thunderbolt 2 port) as an external monitor display connecting to my pc as a second monitor. Is this possible and if so what cables and/or adapters...

Hello. Im having a bit of trouble with my monitors setup I currently have 2 24" monitors 1 via DVI and the other via Display Port. Also have a 49" 4K TV connected to my PC to enjoy 4K HDR games on the big screen conected through HDMI. The problem comes with my last acquisition, an Oculus Rift...

i have a laptop charger 19v 4.7A , and when i test it with my multimeter , the voltage change in everysecond. It start with 8.2v to 9.5v ... 7.2v and it never stop ore stay stable at a point.This charger doesnt work for my laptop. Please anyone can tell me what wrong part of charger would be ? I...

So I want to have a SCART TV as a display for my PC (has HDMI, DVI and VGA ports). Tho online I've seen only SCART ported devices connected to HDMI TV. I didn't find anything that goes HDMI, VGA or DVI cable to SCART TV. I'm looking forward to Buying a converting device or DIY solutions, budget...

I have a TV I want to connect to my laptop as an extended display. I've connected them with an HDMI cable (which is not broken, I've checked). My laptop picks up the extended display as Beko-VJAZ1. The tv is set to the correct HDMI channel, and the screen works (it displays the channel number...

I bought a brand new acer nitro 5 an 515-51 , but theres's sth wrong with it and its reeeaaaly strange ... some of the contents and texts are shown blurry and pixelized but it just show itself in some spc places mostly in installation autoruns, some of the Icons and in some softwares... I'm...

Hello, I just bought an MSI GT75VR Titan pro and am having a problem. None of my graphics cards are detected by the laptop. A GTX 1080 and intel graphics are not even shown in the device manager. The CPU is fine so I do not understand why it's only the GPUs that are acting up. Right now I am...

Whenever I open the NVIDIA control panel, it says that I am not using a display adapter is not attached to a NVIDIA GPU. After spending days, I realised that my computer display was using "Microsoft Basic Display Driver". I have searched and people had said that it should be named as NVIDIA...

Hi, I just thought I found the correct cable but I wanted to connect my HP Probook 650 G2 with a displayport 1.2 via a connector to HDMI to stream on a LG TV. The TV says "no signal". If I reduce the resolution of my laptop, this crashes so don't know what's wrong. My laptop only has this kind...

Ideally would have a USB-C passthrough for power, a DP port (or another USB-C port), a 3.5mm audio out, and at least one USB-A port. Thanks!

I have Mitsubishi projection tv. I am trying to connect laptop to projection tv by using an HDMI-to-Component adopter. But its not working. tv just showing flickering/lines picture. No proper image is displaying. Laptop: HP Probook, Integrated intel graphics Tv: Mitsubishi Rear Projection Tv...

So about a year ago, I got myself a Lenovo G565 (I know, spectacular stuff) because I couldn't afford anything more. But, from the moment I bought it till now my graphics card was failing and I didn't open it up till today. Basically, red lines across the display, white stripes (see picture 1)...

Hey everybody! So I just bought this new monitor featuring a 1440p display with a refresh rate of 144hz. Like many monitors, it doesn't come out of the box with 144hz enabled. When I try to enable it through the display adapter properties menu however, the option doesn't even come up. I went...

I have dell inspiron 3541 notebook. With amd a6 processor, radeon R4(integrated) and R5 m230 2gb... But my game and other applications using only integrated graphic 512mb instead of 2gb... In Graphics properties R4 showing as primary and R5 as linked adapter..... How to use my linked adapter or...

Hello. So I bought a laptop (Asus VivoBook N580VD), and it comes with a USB type C 3.1 GEN 1 port. It is also a displayport port (little DP icon - like the one in this picture https://www.displayport.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/devices-stack.jpg) What I would like to know is what...

Hi Everyone! I'm trying to connect my Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 to my desktop monitor. I bought a multiport adapter that hosts: 1 USB 1 Micro USB 2.0 1 VGA 1 HDMI Audio In Audio Out - Here's the actual adapter: https://www.amazon.com/Kitbox-Mirroring-Android-Converter-Matchbox/dp/B07233NRFZ - I...

Hi All, I have recently purchased a new work laptop (HP Pavilion 15-CC505TU) that i would like to set up with duel screens when at use at my desk. It only has one HDMI output but it also has a USB-C connection that i have been told will work as a display output. The monitors only both one HDMI...

Hi, I recently reset my laptop due to some performance issues, and after resetting it, my display adapter seems to be listed as an Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600, while I have a Nvidia 970m. I'm no expert on computers, but shouldn't the display adapter be my graphics card? Please correct me if I am...

i think 2 picture is enough to make you guys understand what kind of problem i had back in the day my laptop got black screen after updating the nvidia driver , even on the bios startup , thus the only way i can get my laptop to work again is to reflashing bios , and it works however...

I purchased a Lenovo Thinkcentre SFF M90 3245 i3 3.2Ghz 4G 250G DVDRW Windows 10 Professional, http://r.ebay.com/CKxiHg to use a media centre for my tv, I am using a brand new Displayport to hdmi cord. It all worked perfectly till last night the audio stop coming through. I always try and find a...

hey, i want to connect my msi laptop to an external 144hz monitor via my laptop's mini display port. however, the monitor requires dvi to output 144hz, so im thinking of buying a mini displayport to dvi adapter to work this out. do u think this will work? will any mini dp to dvi adapter carry a...

I got given a large plasma TV today and it doesn't have an hdmi or dvi port so I purchased a hdmi to vga cable however I can't get any signal or find it in Windows display settings or nvidia control panel. I have a gtx970

This happened after i changed something in the bios. Ive had someone try to repair it but they didnt know what was wrong with it. They removed the cmos to reset the bios but it didnt work. And know i have no idea how to fix it. Anyone who know what the cause could be?

I have problem with my Acer aspire v5 552g. I tried to download the AMD drivers for the hd8750m but when i do the screen turns Black then the blue screen occurs with a message video tdr failure... The problem is that before the drivers install themselves fully the laptop resets and then he...

I bought HTC vive. And it is connected with hdmi to my graphics card. I only have one hdmi in my graphicscard. And i also need to connect my monitor. I have two DVI, but none in my monitor. I have VGA in my monitor, but none in my graphicscard. I bought DVI to VGA adapter. but still doesn't...

I cannot picture out anything on my laptop screen after selecting 'microsoft basic display adapter' to update driver software of display adapter from the device manager. I did this as I was trying to fix my issue with brightness control (cannot decrease nor increase it). After I select that...

My laptop wouldn't install the AMD driver, so I tried to delete the only display adapter there was installed on my laptop, which was microsoft basic display adapter. I removed it, restarted my computer and now it only shows a blackscreen. No cursor, no start windows logo or anything. I have...

I have a Dell 3537 laptop with integrated graphics card (AMD), It's 2 years old and today after using it for 10 minutes the display started showing pixels everywhere and becoming unreadable. Even it is unreadable during BIOS or startup. Please suggest some solution ASAP. For screenshot...

i recently bought the exp gdc adapter for graphics card but i could not run it on my loptopt that has 2x8 gb ram stick but when i removed those sticks and insert the 2gb ram stick it works fine, but the thing is that i whant to at least have 4 gb of ram in my laptop

So here's how it all went down... This morning when I open the device manager, I saw that the display adapter, Intel HD Graphics 4000 had a yellow exclamation mark on it. When I clicked it, it saids Window had stopped the device from working(code 43). I fixed this problem yesterday with no...

I am trying to use my TV as a monitor and sure my TV speakers because the speakers on my laptop are garbage. I bought a display (which to my knowledge carries audio) to HDMI adapter. My laptop recognizes that the TV speakers are there and I set them to my default priority speakers, I have tried...

My lap (hp) is having NVidia 820m 2gb dd3 games are not working perfectly ...cant change the display adapter to from intel to NVidia ..can any help please icant play Naruto storm4 its stucks

After successfully updating my Pinnacle Studio Plus v9.4.3 to Studio Plus v11, I was then advised by the program to run a test on the Display Adapter. My Display Adapter works fine on Studio Plus v9.4. However, when I try to display a video on Studio Plus v11 all I see are flashing colors in the...

When I brought this new lap it had two graphics drivers Intel and amd when I looked in control panel >display>adjust resolution >advanced settings and I see the adapter type as Intel p,s help me i need to change it to amd to play

Hi all, I have such a weird problem. my laptop was working fine and I was playing then suddenly the game froze and I had blue screen then the laptop went off. I tried to open it and see what's wrong " the screen was working " but when I put things back and tried to turn it on the screen was...

So i have an alienware laptop that has a gtx 970M. After a while of having it, it started to kinda crash while i was doing things like browsing the web and such, but not while playing games. Always saying that the display driver has crashed but has recovered. Someone who is very good with...

Recently when I have been listening to audio on my laptop, it will freeze for about 10 seconds and create a loud buzzing noise. Then my pointer would come back and eventually my screen would update the picture. This has been happening for a week now. My audio and display drivers are up to date...

Hi all, I'm having this problem on my laptop from quite some time with this so any help would be greatly appreciated, and will try to explain everything I tried on this as I already tried many things in different threads. My system is, HP G42 363tx Core i3 370M ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470 4GB...

I have a Gigabyte p35 that supposedly has gTX 980m installed, but everywhere I check it only says Intel. I checked the device manager Nvidia doesn't show up. If I right click the desktop Nvidia isn't there either. There isn't even an Nvidia control panel. I tried installing a driver update and...

Intermittent Black screen Issue.

I connected an Acer laptop with only HDMI connections to Acer projector HDMI connection I have a lovely picture but no sound. I plugged external speakers into laptop but still no sound. Please help this 70 years old silver surfer .

I'm new at computers. Just learning. It's an Intel Pentium and has Windows Vista. I was learning to use it, I took a break, closed the lid, and then later when I lifted nothing displayed on the screen. I don't understand 'FEED'.

When I power on my laptop, then turn the camera light on, the screen display after 20 seconds wil sometimes boot up windows and many times display light is on, but the screen is black. What is it's problem? Please help me to solve this problem.

Hi, I recently downgraded to Windows 7 (from win 8.1) and after installing the necessary drivers I'm left with the issues of graphics and function keys... My laptop won't let me install the Nvidia graphics driver I've tried 361.91 (latest). I've also tried a couple lower versions none work. It...

Hey All. I bought my Razer Blade around November last year, and I automatically upgraded it to Windows 10. Since then, I've encountered the occasional glitch wherein I would run a game (usually either Heroes VI, but it does this with other games as well) and I would end up with a blank black...

Hello all. I went to use my Toshiba C55-A5172 laptop today and the colors were very off. The background is supposed to be green on the screen where I enter my password but it's blue. I shrugged and logged in, but then I noticed the color was faded and I could barely see much. I searched Google...

Deleted Display adapter Geforce GTX 960M graphic card from device manager, how to reinstall it? (Check for hardware changes did not work for me) , NIVIDIA Geforce cannot detect that i have a NVIDIA GPU, so installing the most recent driver does not work as they cant detect my GPU. Its a lenovo...

Hey guys, I recently bought a 144 Hz monitor for gaming purposes and found out that the display adapter my laptop(Gigabyte P15fv2) was using was the Intel HD Graphics 4600 the whole time and not the GTX 850M. I looked through the forums and tried a few possible ways to make the GTX my display...

Hey guys, I recently bought a 144 Hz monitor for gaming purposes and found out that the display adapter my laptop(Gigabyte P15fv2) was using was the Intel HD Graphics 4600 the whole time and not the GTX 850M. I looked through the forums and tried a few possible ways to make the GTX my display...

Hi; I'm new to the forum & the toms hardware website in general. I desperately need help w an issue with my Lenovo Y50-70 laptop that I bought in Jan 2015. The specs for my laptop are: - 4th Generation Intel Core i7-4710HQ Processor (2.50GHz 1600MHz 6MB) - Windows 8.1 64 - 15.6" FHD LED...

NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M [Display adapter] runs at a lower lower frame rate and is significantly outperformed by my Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000 [Display adapter] Games tested on : League of Legends / Titanfall / Civ5 Yes Drivers are 100% updated Why is this happening? People tell me its not...

a few days ago i was working with my laptop and suddenly purple square glitches appeared on the screen. the purple color disappeared and then i got a message like "display adapter stopped responding and has recovered". that problem showed up again for a half a dozen times later. i tried updating...

HP 2000 model TPN1107 Broken screen <<<<< Laptop Disabled display adapter from device manager intelrHDgraphics on accident and now it won't display to an external display Any suggestions

I have a Dell Latitude e6400 at work. It is a spare Laptop that we were using in our endoscopy labs. It runs win7. The problems started a few months ago with an annoying issue of "freezing up" after running anywhere from 30 min to 3-4 hours. I had our part time IT guy look at it, but he is all...

I Had a Windows 8.1 installed ( in place of another Windows 8.1 ) , i noticed since then that i can't Adjust my Screen brightness, through one Microsoft account i can "attempt" to use the slide to change the brightness but it doesn't change anything, on my other account the Brightness option is...

my laptop is dell 3542 with intel r graphics family and geforce gt 820m my games all are running fine but my display adapter is intel i tried disabling in device manager and tried to find a option in bios but no luck

So I did a dumb thing - i changed the display adapter settings on my laptop (i think i changed to TV or something) and now I can't get it back to just show my laptop's own monitor. Yes, i've tried plugging in different monitors using the micro hdmi but that doesn't work. I've tried using the...