Toshiba Laptop will not remember its display settings.

[Geoff]

We have a couple of classrooms where the whiteboards (smartboards) are run by Toshiba Satalite Pro laptops. In one room the laptop refuses to remeber its display settings after a reboot. In paticular it wont remember to send its display to the external VGA for the projector. In the other room with an identical setup (at least until I started fiddling) the other laptop has zero problems.

I have tried:

1. Upgrading the drivers.
2. Downgrading the drivers.
3. Removing the Toshiba Tools.
4. Reinstalling the Toshiba Tools.
5. Educating the teachers about the Function-F5 voodoo.

None of these solutions have worked and I regularly get asked to look at it because its 'broken'.

[E1uSiV3]

Ive had similar problems in the past, if you want to force it to output to both screens there should be a setting in the bios along the lines of "Display Device" and the option is by default "Auto" just change it to "both" and hopefully it should do so in windows.

[Geoff]

Got back to this laptop today. I found the bios setting (after getting in the dam bios, its hold ESC then press F1 when prompted) and gave it back to the teacher. She'll try it out tomorrow.