Resolution Limitations on the Z70Va (refresh) second monitor?

Hi all,

This is my first post, but I've been following the reviews of the z70va. Awesome reviews everyone who's posted so far and congrats on your new rigs!

I was wondering if anyone has hooked up another monitor up to their new z70Va in a two separate monitor configs. Is there a limitation on the resolution on the 2nd monitor when using the laptop's screen as monitor 1? I've seen on dealer sites that the MSI 1029 has resolution limitations on the 2nd monitor. You can't go higher than the laptop res with the MSI 1029 which IMO totally bites and reminds me of my work Dell M70.

I am disappointed with the Dell M70 because of nvidia's method of treating the second monitor as an extension (ID 1b) and not a separate monitor (ID 2). I tell ya it's really stupid when you run a presentation on it. Presentations always run full screen spanning both monitors. I'm probably doing something wrong, but they don't make it obvious and easy to make one monitor do the presentation and the other monitor show the slides and notes like with my ATI dual monitor setups.

Anyways...I'm digressing...has anyone displayed the second monitor at a resolution higher than 1680 x 1050 while concurrently using the laptop screen?

Thanks in advance!

Hi again,

So any z70Va owners hook up their lappies to an external monitor as monitor 2 and go to a higher resolution than the laptop screen? Can anyone test this out for me? I can't find the site where I saw that note about the MSI 1029 not being able to set the 2nd monitor higher than the laptop screen setting. Maybe whereever I saw it last removed the note, but it begged me to question if this was an x700 limitation or just MSI doing something funky, or a false note.

Any z70Va owners with a capable CRT out there?

Thanks!

MrGraphics - Actually I want to use what they call dualView. I'm trying to use one screen as the presentation screen and the other as the presenter notes screen. But dualView wasn't available to me until .... Read below

YuriSEAL - Thanks! I have a M70 (hot little bugger). I think I found out my problem. Nvidia drivers for Win2K acted different than the drivers for WinXP. I don't know why, but I know from inside sources that Nvidia likes to do things their own way and not take suggestions from MSFT unless it hurts them in the pocket.


I forgot to mention that my OS and office package was Windows 2000 and Office 2000. That could have been my problem right there.

My work laptop just got "upgraded" to Windows XP Pro and Office 2003 was installed. My work is a bit slow with the OS updates, we always lag several years. Now my M70 can run dual monitors as MSFT wanted it. I'm now using dualView where as before I could only span vertically or horizontally. Nvidia's drivers for the OS could have been the problem because we still have ATI driven PC's running 2000 with office 2000 and I can run the dual monitors and presentation mode in the MSFt way.

But all of my comments about the M70 was a side note to my original topic about the Z70va.

I don't have a Z70Va and would like to get one (although this slow red response on the screen I'm reading about on the forum is delaying my decision). I was wondering if anyone out there has tried running their Z70Va with the laptop screen and another monitor of higher resolution than the Z70Va and see if they can run both displays at different resolutions. I don't know if the limitation I read about the MSI 1029 (ATI X700) is true or not.

Can Anyone with an MSI 1029 tell me if this limitation is true?

Thanks!