Post by Denzil HathwayBill, thanks for your interest. I was beginning to suspect that I was stuck
with simultaneous displays. Dammit - it doesn't make sense not to be able to
turn the laptop screen off.
If I change the resolution I get all or nothing, in other words, either the
same image on both screens or nothing on both. I had earlier thought myself
of doing this but in view of all the dire warnings about causing harm and
even damage I didn't attempt it before.
The whole purpose in introducing an external LCD monitor (available to me
cheap) was to protect a darkening native screen in which the brightness was
all the way up. I wonder, when the primary display fails if the external
will continue to work. You'd think it would ... no? Regards, Denzil.
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Post by BillW50Post by Denzil HathwayWell I've struck out in a big way - I cannot turn my Laptop display off
to operate on an external monitor by itself. Ben is right, there are no
ATI Utilities on this 9500, either in Windows or ATI. The generic IBM
utility I downloaded and unstalled, closely following instructions given
on the IBM site just disappeared - twice.
So I'm left frustrated - with a lot of time invested and an extra
monitor. Sincerely, thanks for all the help guys. Regards, Denzil.
Hi Denzil! This whole thing is starting to sound very bad. So you don't
see monitor 1 and 2 under Display, just one? That is a virtual guarantee
they cut a few corners. Here did you see this?
http://support.gateway.com/s/manlib/Notebooks/Solo9500/8508147/8508147.htm
External video
* Supports dual display
* Supports simultaneous LCD/external monitor
Doesn't sound like you can have one or the other, just simultaneous. What
happens when you set it to a higher resolution that the monitor can
handle, but not the laptop?
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Bill
Black Asus EEE PC 4GB
Xandros Linux
A failed LCD display does not mean that an external display will not
work on a laptop. It all depends on the cause of failure. For example,
the Solo 9550 (you are lucky to have a 9500 with an ATI chip) has an
nVidia graphics chip soldered onto the motherboard. If the nVidia chip
fails, as they have been known to do, the laptop is history. If the LCD
fails because of age or because someone sat on it, the rest of the guts
of a laptop are generally still functional. When doing laptop repairs,
it is often the practice to test the bottom of a laptop using an
external monitor, to save a lot of time assembling then disassemling
again if something is not quite right... Ben Myers