Hardware:: Won't Work With HP W1907 19' External Monitor Jun 13, 2008 Is the HP w1907 a good external monitar for my MacBook Pro? I have a lot of problems when I hook up my MacBook Pro to my HDTV. It doesn't look OMG STUNNING! But it's not bad either. Really cool for watching a movie, or just messing about online.
But for when I am at my desk it would be nice to have the external monitar. Is it going to have a good resolution? ^ thats the link. I just got my MacBook Pro three days ago. Its the newest version. Similar Messages:.
ADVERTISEMENT Jun 27, 2009 I have a 22' Dell external monitor on my MBP. I know that I just close the cover to my MBP to shut off the screen.
What do I do in those instances that I want to use both screens? There has to be something simpler than restarting the MBP?
Mar 16, 2009 Just bought a new monitor and hooked it up to my MBA. Screen saver looks fine but the page is displayed off screen far left and the cursor is not visible at all. Works fine with my Powerbook so I don't think it's a monitor problem. Are there settings which could be wrong? Jan 12, 2010 When I got my 26' monitor the other day it worked right out of the box plugging into my 13' Macbook Pro. I am slaving it off the macbook w/o using the LED screen on the MBP. Just the external.
Yesterday I was trying to improve the image quality and changed the frequency (common bad decision) and am getting the common 'out of range' message. Now if I run the external WITH the 13' LED of the MBP it is fine as it's using a different profile/preferences to set the right frequency. I have deleted the pref file that everyone on the net says to do with no luck I have reset the PRAM and VRAM as suggested with no help. Is there another location for the preferences related to this in Snow Leopard as most help I am finding is a year old to several years old. The pref to delete in old posts just doesn't do the trick. Again the monitor works fine when used in conjunction with the screen on the MBP but is out of range when running solo with the MBP lid closed. Oct 12, 2010 I bought my 13'MBP about 2-3 months ago.
I mainly use it for uni so It's back and forth (great portability). But I am looking into getting a monitor for my setup at home. I have the hdmi adapter + HDMI cable which I use to connect to my tv in the living room.
(52' Bravia). I am looking to spend about $150-$200 no more then that. Apple monitors are out of my price range. I also have a few questions. Is it better to get a monitor with HDMI? - Is vga/dvi good? How is it for those who have it?
- Is there much difference between 1600 x 900 and 1920 x 1080? - Will my MBP look fine on any of these monitors? Here are some that I have been looking at (URL) (URL) Nov 10, 2010 How does it look when doing so, if the resolution is higher than the native. For example, if the monitor resolution is 1650x1050. Aug 16, 2010 I bought the mini-display port to dual link dvi adaptor for $99.
However, it doesn't work from going from my pc to the imac or from my macbook pro to the imac. I find it retarded that they wouldn't even sell a working adapter.
Has anyone gotten this to work or does anyone know which adapter I can buy to get this going? -PC to iMac -2009 (pre-minidisplay port) dvi to imac. I need it to be dual link dvi because I want to use it at max resolution.
Sep 28, 2008 I have a 24' dell external monitor that I use with my 17' MBP. My wife would like to hook up her 12' ibook to the 24' monitor. Is this possible, and what cables would I need?
Jan 9, 2010 I have a 27' i7. I have a 24' DVI Montior hooked up to it via MDP-DVI adaptor. When the 24' Monitor is on, everything is fine. When I turn the monitor off, the magic mouse tracking on the 27' screen stutters. I am not kidding - it took me ages to figure out that to fix I either need to turn the other monitor on OR disconnect the MDP-DVI adaptor.
Nov 11, 2009 I have a 13 late 2007 MacBook. It has a mini-DVI port and runs Leopard OS. If I am using Apple's DVI to mini-DVI adaptor and a 24 Monitor with a DVI connector will I have any compatability or performance issues. Jan 31, 2010 I have a G4 powerbook with an LCD that only displays the top 25% of the screen.
I've been using an external monitor with it just fine. Today, I reinstalled the OS and ran into a problem. The main OSX startup menu (you know, where it asks for your location, timezone, personal info, etc) is prompting me for information, and I can't see the forms to fill them in! The external monitor defaults to 'extended' as opposed to 'mirrored', and the forms are embedded, meaning I can't drag them over to my external monitor. Obviously, if I can't fill out these forms and get to the desktop, the laptop is completely useless. Does anyone know how to force the external monitor to be 'mirrored' from startup? Is there a keycommand?
Jul 30, 2005 I have been using the latest macbook pro 13.3' since April 2010. Over the last week the monitor suddenly goes completely white and the external monitor goes black. The laptop becomes unresponsive although the programmes opened continue running (e.g a skype voice call would continue without interruption although the monitor is all white). The only solution at the moment is to press the turn off button for a few seconds then switch the laptop on again. It will then work normally until for no apparent reason this happens again.
Oct 16, 2008 I picked up a new MacBook yesterday and I noticed a weird issue when coming out of 'monitor sleep' mode, not regular sleep mode. When I move the mouse, the external monitor shows what you see in the picture, kinda like a TV with no signal. The MacBook screen works fine so what I just do is unplug and re-plug in the DVI plug and everything is good again. My 24 inch Dell monitor worked fine with my M1330 and other computers so I know it's not that. Does anyone have the same issue or maybe give me some light on this? Nov 9, 2008 Is there a way to use my external monitor as my only monitor when connected to my mbp? Or, can i clone my display, but at separate resolutions?
I am able to do this on windows with nvidia software, is there software that allows further customization? Aug 5, 2009 As said, my current set up is an HDMI - DVI cable (HDMI to monitor and DVI to adapter) and my DVI - mini DisplayPort adapter, everything is connected fine but when I turn on the monitor, it says cable not found. And nothing is displayed on the screen but on the Macbook side of things, it sees the monitor is connected (I can extend the screen and leave the screen) but other than that, it appears I cannot get an image on the monitor, pressing every button on the monitor does not work either. Any other information that may seem necessary, let me know. I tried clearing my PRAM and clearing the power and such but nothing seems to work. Dec 12, 2009 I've hooked up my Macbook Pro 2009 to my external monitor and everything works.
The issue is the mac image on the external monitor is cut off like I can't see the white top bar. Any solutions to fix this issue? Feb 27, 2009 I have a Macbook Pro 2.16 Core Duo, and I'm wanting to install 10.6, but about a year ago, I cracked my screen to the point that I cannot make anything out on it, and haven't replaced it. Instead, I have just been using it in clamshell mode, which has worked out fine so far. My problem is that I cannot get the 10.6 install to show up on my external monitor. I searched around, and could only find one other similar thread that just ended with the author putting it in clamshell and having it work fine. When I boot to the install and close the screen, I just get a grey box on my external display with a black bar on either side of it.
I can't seem to find any other resources, so I'm not entirely sure what to do at this point. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Feb 22, 2012 I have a 2008 black macbook with 10.7.2 installed (2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM). When I press caps lock, no green light turns on and letters remain in non-capital form. Even when I hold Caps lock for a few seconds, nothing happens. If I physically connect an apple keyboard via usb to my computer, caps lock doesn't work. Mar 4, 2008 Will any monitor work with a mac mini?
Jul 21, 2009 Recently I wiped OS X out and installed XP alone. I used the Leopard disc to install the necessary drivers and everything seems to work well except for my second monitor. I have an HP w1907 connected to my MBP through DVI, and I followed my usual process of: Right Click on Desktop Properties Settings Click on second monitor Click 'Extend Desktop to this device'.and nothing seems to happen. I've tried changing the resolution, unplugging the monitor and trying again, but I can't get any result. Nov 9, 2009 so there is my question. Will the speakers work as you use the mac as a monitor? Mar 4, 2009 really want a new Mac Mini and currenly have a Dell monitor from an older PC.
Will this Dell monitor work perfectly with the Mini? Jun 29, 2009 I have a 20inch imac (bought in summer 2007). I am just getting into using it as my primary computer. I was playing around in order to learn more and I found something through Activity Monitor that does not make sense to me. In the Network Activity tab, I see 'Data received:' and 'Data sent:' sections. As I browse the web, these numbers change of course, but it seems that the Data received quickly reaches hundreds of megabytes! Right now, Data received: is 540MB and Data sent: is 280MB (after a reboot earlier in the day).
I am not using the iMac as a server or anything and I have never seen a Windows PC sending out so many packets in the course of browsing the web. Is this in line with others' experience? Should I be concerned about a spyware program on my iMac? Jul 23, 2009 I got a Mac Mini today and started setting it up. I was getting ready to plug it into my monitor, which I used on my old Windows Machine, and I realized that the Mac Mini would not plug into my monitor.
I did try using the adapter that came with my Mac Mini, but it didn't work. My Monitor has a VGA port, yet the adapter wouldn't. I do not want to buy an Apple monitor because they are too expensive for me. Jun 14, 2010 I'm working with a Mac Pro (2x3 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon, 4 GB RAM) and a dual 23' monitor setup. Quite recently the second monitor stopped responding, after disconnecting everything, moving, and reconnecting.
(Everything was boxed lovingly in its original packaging and moved by gentle movers.) It isn't the monitors both work fine in the first monitor port. The computer recognizes there is a second monitor attached, allowing me to access Arrangement options under System Preferences Displays. The power light on the second monitor comes on, blinking in the following manner (if it were Morse Code): dot dash dot.(then it is dark for about four seconds before repeating the same blinking sequence). It appears to have some sort of meaning. Is there a way to reset this?
Jun 24, 2012 when i try to open activity monitor, it's fine for 2 seconds and then i get the rainbow wheel.and i have to end it using force quit. Info: MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8) Sep 9, 2009 I've got the older white macbook laptop. Just got delivered was my brand new Dell U2410 monitor (drool) and the adapter from apple that converts mini dvi to dvi-d. The monitor is sitting here and i plug it into my mac via the adapter using the dvi cable provided by Dell and the external monitor displays the default apple background and I can move my mouse around on the screen but that's it. How do I get it to work properly?
Do I have to use a separate mouse/keyboard or can I use the macbook keyboad? Feb 11, 2010 I know this is a basic question, but for some reason i just can't seem to figure out how to use my 24' Apple cinema display with my 13' MBP as a second screen. I obviously want to use the 24' display as my main screen (when connected to my 13' macbook) but for the life of me I can't seem to figure out how to use my MBP as a secondary iTunes, etc.
I typically use my macbook in 'clamshell' mode with my 24' display and when I open the lid of the macbook, it's just black as if the computer was asleep but it fails to wake up when I press any buttons on the keyboard. When I unplug the mini display cable, the external monitor goes black and I'm reverted to using just my macbook. I know this can be done. Does anyone have any experience with the 24' Apple cinema display and MBP? Sep 1, 2009 I connected a external monitor onto my macbook pro and I want to know how do I make that monitor my main one? Like move everything (dock, folders, and bar on top) to my external monitor? Download dropbox portable ahk for mac. Apr 4, 2012 I have a G4 iMac running OS 10.7.3 and would like to add a second monitor to increase my work space (not a mirroring monitor).
Is this possible?