FN + F5 function key does not work

[alexknight]

Hi

I have a Toshiba laptop that will not allow the FN+F5 softkey combination. When the laptop is connected to a projector I want it to display on the projector and laptop.

When I start the laptop a signal reaches the projector as i can see the boot up screen and XP start up sequence. But once it has gone through that sequence it will only display on the laptop and the FN+F5 function keys does nothing.

I have also tried another Toshiba laptop on the projector and it works fine so projector and cabling is OK.

Any suggestions??

The laptop in question is a Toshina Satellite Pro L10

Thanks

Alex

[western]

Go into to control panel - there is a toshiba hardware configurator. Click on this and set the monitor option to simultaneous. If you do this you will never have to press the fn-f5 / f8 again!

[projector1]

arh the L10's
we had this issue!
normally if you reboot the machine it then solves the issue, also check the graphics card properties, as ours has ATI cards and you have to select double output.
You may also need to reinstall the hotkey utility.
HTH

[ChrisC]

Generally if it's an intel graphics card on the board you can right click on the desktop go to graphics options> output to> dual display clone > notebook + monitor

that should sort it.

Chris

[Craig_W]

We had this same problem with some L20's and L10's. We found that re-installing the Toshiba Hotkey Utility fixed the problem and bought back the Fn+F5 functionality.

[danIT]

sometimes its not Fn+F5

[ChrisH]

I get this problem sometimes when I have reinstalled them and used a generic driver. This usually shows by not filling the laptop screen down the right hand side. You have to just use the driver off the Toshiba site. I find that it wont install first time but if you reboot and try again it works :s

[Craig_W]

It is Fn+F5 on ours. Im sure reinstalling Hotkey will also fix Fn+"Whatever Key".

[alexknight]

I tried re-installing the Toshiba hotkeys, but without success. Then I took of all graphic drivers and then re-installed the latest drivers from the Toshiba site. This worked as per;

Generally if it's an intel graphics card on the board you can right click on the desktop go to graphics options> output to> dual display clone > notebook + monitor

However the hotkeys still do not work, but the above is a workaround for the time being.

Thanks

Alex