Trying to use a dual-monitor desktop system with Windows XP…. 1 graphics card… with digital/analog outputs.
Picking: Desktop -> Properties -> Settings -> Identify
It shows "2" as my left monitor… and "1" as my right.
How do I switch them around?
Here's what I've tried so far:
Switch the cables (I can't. I need the digital cable on the better monitor.) Switch the monitors (I can't. One has a few dead pixels.) Drag the 1+2 graphics around (That doesn't change the IDENTIFY numbers.) Pick "use as primary" or "extend" (That doesn't change the IDENTIFY numbers.)
Anything else I can try?
What exactly controls/switches the "IDENTIFY numbers" around?
I know it can be done. For weeks I ran this exact set-up… with the CORRECT numbers appearing on the monitors…. then just recently… after a few reboots… they now appear "switched around".
Best Answer
The identify numbers don't matter. They are just for your benefit in, yaknow, identifying the monitors, and could just as easily be color coded or something. You can drag the monitors around so that they work correctly but it's irrelevant what the numbers actually are - 2 can be on the left, 7 can be the primary, whatever. (The display in front of me right now is, left to right, 2 - 1 - 3.)
If you're just OCD and you HAVE to have 1 on the left, you're out of luck; this is determined by how the monitors are physically cabled to the card so you'd have to switch the cables. (I'm not sure why yours switched spontaneously, I'm guessing a driver update.)