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Old 15-10-2008, 02:11 PM   #1
 
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Good afternoon everyone.

I have a very annoying issue with the above-mentioned laptop.

It loses it's abillity to use the Fn-F5 function when an external vga port is plugged in.

I.e. the laptop doesn't pick the monitor/projector up. After every log on, in graphics properties, the option reverts back to Single Display rather than staying on Multiple Displays. Even when its set to multiple, FN-F5 doesn't work.

I have tried reinstalling the graphics drivers, ran microsoft update, and just about everything else.

Its not just happening on one laptop, but a few in different schools. Even on some travelmates. Anybody got any ideas on what and why could be happening?


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Dont think double posting is going to get you a faster response mind you

Have had this before i remember learning how to fix it.. let me have a look in my book i know i put this somewhere just incase like now it happend and i cant remember how to fix it.

Will get back to you..

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Dont think double posting is going to get you a faster response mind you

Have had this before i remember learning how to fix it.. let me have a look in my book i know i put this somewhere just incase like now it happend and i cant remember how to fix it.

Will get back to you..

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Double posting wasn't intentional, my apologies.


i will admit I have got a wor-around, but its still not working corrctly. The schools log into a locked profile, and they cant do what they need to, so they log on as a local account with admin rights, then change the display to multiple manually, before logging back onto the domain. But the FNF5 still doesn' work after that.

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Press ALT CTRL + F12 to bring up the display propeties
Then select output to
The select Dual display clone Notebook + Monitor
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Its ok, sometimes you dont know how to take it as some people come on and do it on purpose lol.

Still looking.. although what jamin said rings some bells...

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Press ALT CTRL + F12 to bring up the display propeties
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The select Dual display clone Notebook + Monitor
Thats the work around, however, when the laptops restart, it reverts back to single and even then, FN-F5 don't work.

So I am back to square one still.
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Just get the teachers to keep setting the screen preferences ?
Thats what they do here... Takes like 2 seconds!
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Just get the teachers to keep setting the screen preferences ?
Thats what they do here... Takes like 2 seconds!
Yeah, thats what I have got them to do.

I have a sneaky feeling it may be a start-up service I have stopped. Just going to test it now. (Toshiba Hotkey - although other FN functions work fine).
Had 2 A300's side by side, one of them works while the other doesn't.
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I am pretty sure theres an option on the BIOS to set the display to both lcd+vga.
When comes to Windows check to see if Toshiba Common Modules and Hotkey Utilities for Display Devices are properly installed
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Cheers for the reply people. I have deducted it down to msconfig, I have stopped the start up process for the hotkey utillities.


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