Re: Re:Display Disaster! Help!
- From: "Echo S" <msnewsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:50:58 -0400
Thanks for posting your resolution, Andrea. I'm sure it will help someone in
future!
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"Andrea" <andreanospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Andrea wrote:
john wilson wrote:
If you can see "wallpaper" on the projector then you are sending the
image to it.
It sounds like you have set up the graphics card to show the image
spanned across two monitors ie laptop shows normal desktop and projector
the usually invisible area to the right or left of the laptop screen
(which is probably just wallpaper.)
There should be a menu in the control panel for (nvidea or whatever) to
clone image on both screens. Also make sure that you have screen res set
that the projector can handle.
Yes, I agree that the problem was most likely caused by the multiple
monitor setting. It's too bad that I didn't think of that before I walked
into a room full of people waiting to see a presentation! I should have
tested things out with a projector, but I had very little preparation
time and have used the same projector before with my laptop, so I didn't
foresee a problem. I still haven't figured out how to get the projection
back to the way it used to be, i.e., the same image on my laptop
projected to the screen the audience sees. As best I can tell, the menu
is on the Settings tab of the Display box in the Control Panel--but I
can't seem to correct the settings. The screen resolution may need some
tweaking too because the wallpaper looked grainy, but I hadn't even tried
to adjust the focus of the projector. First, get the image onto the
screen, then adjust the focus!
FYI if someone else has this problem: The IT folks at my job found the
solution, and it is in the Display settings but not the grayed out Extend
Windows Desktop box. Even when I connected my laptop to a projector, that
box remained gray. However, when the primary monitor was highlighted and I
clicked on the advanced tab, it opened up a window with more tabs. I'd
seen this before but didn't know what to do. When I click on the Displays
tab, there are three sections: Monitor, Panel, and TV. TV was already
marked as not connected. However, the Monitor (picture of a monitor) had a
red corner. When I clicked on that, the red corner disappeared and it
changed that section to Not Connected--so the Panel section (picture of a
laptop) was the only display selected. Now my laptop projects properly.
Problem solved. (The Extend box is still checked off.)
I appreciate your efforts to help with this problem--and am so relieved
that it's fixed--and it only took a few seconds!
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