Re: External Monitor

On 2/25/2009 18:33, bastXXXette@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
C.Joseph Drayton<kalekseishaken@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> feenberg wrote:
> > I am in the market for new laptops the conference rooms in our
> > offices. These are for visiting speakers and always need to have the
> > external monitor port on so that the presentation will appear on the
> > projector screen. The speakers are nearly always visitors, and 100% of
> > the time have difficulty finding the key combination to turn on the
> > external monitor so that the LCD projector is fed a signal. Does
> > anyone know of a laptop/notebook brand where the external monitor
> > setting can be persistent across reboots? Between this and adjusting
> > the projector a minute or two is lost between every presentation, and
> > I want to reduce the lost time.
> >
> > Yes, we have printed up a card with "Use FN-F5 to use projector" in
> > large letters and taped it to the computer. It helps, but there is
> > still a pause before the key is pressed.
> >
> > Perhaps there is some way to set Windows to automatically do this at
> > boot?
> >
> > Daniel Feenberg
> > NBER

> If you are using WindowsXP, you can setup multiple
> 'hardware' profiles. One would be where the external monitor
> is connected, the other would be without. When you boot,
> then you would be asked which hardware profile to use. This
> is also handy for when you have multiple ways you need to
> connect to various networks.


Hi, would you mind saying more about how to set up a second hardware
profile? What specific files or control panels are you referring to?
I'm not even sure what a "hardware profile" is. :)

I also have a laptop with XP - it's a second-hand one I just bought.
When I connected my desktop PC's monitor to the VGA port on the laptop,
I got nothing on the external monitor. The laptop's own screen worked
fine.

I'm not a Windows expert by a long shot, and I know even less about XP
than I do about Win 2000. So if you could be specific about how to do
this (eg, "Go to the control panel and open X, select the Y option, then
click on Z") that would be very helpful. I poked around a lot in the
control panel, the device manager, and other tools, but found nothing.
(As opposed to finding the right tool to select my external keyboard,
which was easy.)

Also disturbing - after I powered down the laptop, I connected the
external monitor back to my desktop PC, and could not get anything to
come up on the monitor. (The PC was shut down while I connected the
monitor - I booted it up afterward.) I could hear the disk drive and
the fans going so I know the computer booted up fine. But no matter what
I did - fiddled with the on/off button on the monitor, checked to be
sure all the connections and power cables were correctly inserted, etc,
the monitor stayed black.

Is it possible that connecting the monitor to the laptop somehow "blew
something out" in the monitor? I can believe that it didn't work on the
laptop because maybe the laptop didn't have the right driver. (And I
still haven't worked out the internet connection issues on the laptop,
so it wouldn't have been able to download one.) But why wouldn't it
work when I hooked it back up to the PC?

Thanks for any suggestions,

J.

Feel free to email me, but remove the XXX from my user name or it'll bounce!

Hi J,

This is the sequence to follow;

[Start] > [Control Panel] > [System]

When the 'System Properties' applet comes up, click on
the 'Hardware' tab. The bottom option is 'Hardware
Profiles'.

You can than save the hardware profile that you are currently working from. Note that you do want to check the box that will allow the named profile to be set as an option when Windows is booting.

Sincerely,
C.Joseph Drayton, Ph.D. AS&T

CSD Computer Services

Web site: http://csdcs.site90.net/
E-mail: cjoseph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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