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Add-On Devices
Connecting External Devices
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Switching the display to the external monitor
• Press Fn+F5 (or CTRL+ALT+F5 on an external keyboard) to cycle through the
display options: notebook display, external monitor, both.
• If you need to use both displays at once, press Fn+F5 repeatedly until the image
shows on both displays. However, by default, the image is limited by the internal
display to 1024 × 768 or 1400 × 1050 pixels, so at a higher resolution you will see
only part of the desktop on both displays. This doesn’t happen if you use only the
external monitor. If you need to increase the refresh rate on the external monitor, you
can switch to only the external monitor, or make the internal or external display a
“secondary” display—you make this setting on the Display tab (in Windows ME, 98
or 2000, click Advanced on the Settings tab first).
Adjusting monitor resolution and other settings
1. Click Start, Settings, Control Panel, then double-click Display.
2. On the Settings tab, adjust the Screen area. Other settings are also available.
The internal display supports settings of up to 1024 × 768 or 1400 × 1050 resolution with
16M colors (24-or 32-bit).
For a high-resolution external monitor, the computer supports 1280 × 1024 resolution
with 16M colors (24-bit for Celeron models, 32-bit for Pentium models) at 85 Hz max.
refresh rate. It supports 1600 × 1200 resolution with 64K colors for Celeron models and
16M colors (24-bit) for Pentium models at 60 Hz max. refresh rate.
Using dual display mode (Windows ME or 98)
You can extend your desktop by connecting an external monitor to your computer.
1. Click Start, Settings, Control Panel.
2. Double-click Display and click the Settings tab.
3. Right-click display 2, and select Enabled.
You can set different resolutions and numbers of colors for each display. However, using
the Extended Desktop requires video memory to be shared. For this reason, higher
resolutions and higher numbers of colors may cause unexpected behavior on the displays.
We recommend starting with 1024 × 768 resolution on the external display and 64K
colors (16-bit) on both displays. You can try higher settings to see whether they work for
your applications. In addition, certain operations such as playing DVDs and running 3D
graphics require extra video memory, so you may have to use lower display settings.