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I have just got a new Dell Vostro 1720 Laptop, with a 2.66GHz processor, 3GB of RAM and an NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GM S graphics card. I have it plugged into one of those Kensington docking station thingys, and I have an external Dell monitor (IN2010NB) plugged into the laptop. My problem? Well basically, I have a flicker on my monitor. 95% of the time. The laptop screen is fine. It's just the external monitor. The first fix I tried was to change the refresh rate from 60Hz to 75Hz or something similar, only to find that 60Hz is the only option available to me.
Anyone got any thoughts?
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igorski 
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Posted 10 November 2009 - 10:26 AM
The "95 % of the time"-bit worries me. Does this mean that at certain times the display is absolutely fine without you having changed a setting ? This wouldn't magically occur and should point that the monitor fails to maintain it's performance. You could try hooking it up to another device / laptop and see how it responds there.
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Posted 10 November 2009 - 11:26 AM
I think I have it sorted now. Basically I had the 2 monitors running the same, if you know what I mean. It was only later that I realised I could set one monitor as my default, and use the laptop as an extension, if that makes sense. It seems to have cleared up the problem.
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Posted 10 November 2009 - 11:37 AM
Ah you were cloning the output 
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Posted 10 November 2009 - 12:31 PM
Yeah. It did it by default. I didn't realise I could have 2 different displays. I thought the idea of a separate monitor was so you could have a better display. So now I CAD active on the free standing monitor, while my emails go to the laptop monitor.
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Posted 10 November 2009 - 03:51 PM
Yeah, I was gonna say that it might have been the docking station that could have done it. Make good use of HDMI if your computer has it, the picture quality is much better.
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Posted 10 November 2009 - 05:29 PM
There's no monitor output on the dock. which is a pain in the arse. It's connected directly to the laptop. So I have to plug it out when I take it home from work in the evenings.
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