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| 457739 | 2006-05-25 21:28:00 | Two questions: 1. Can a separate screen be connected to a laptop? Not to have both the laptop and an alternative screen active at the same time, but so that a larger desktop screen can be used. A friend is buying a new laptop and wants to know if all laptops have this capability. 2. My PC has a Vid Out socket. If I remember correctly, this is part of the ASUS motherboard. Do I need to activate it somehow or do I simply connect a cable to another screen (or TV)? |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 457740 | 2006-05-25 21:42:00 | 1: So you want to use the laptop screen as well as another monitor? Yes you can. But if you want them side by side so you can get double the screen dimension? No, well not that I know of. Just make sure that the lappy has a 15 pin plug that will fit the monitor. 2: Blank |
bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 457741 | 2006-05-25 21:51:00 | If the mobo has video out, you'll need the drivers (either Nvidia or ATI), or whatever the chipset is for this video out, to configure it, so u get a pic on something like a TV. And a cable to connect it to a TV. You sure its video out and NOT SPDIF out?? If its an RCA socket. They're not the same thing. Ones for video the other for sound. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 457742 | 2006-05-26 04:17:00 | Speedy - yes, it is video. Not an RCA socket but one with multiple pins - it took me awhile to find a shop that had the correct plug. I will check for the specs and then see about configuring it (however that is done?). Bob - correct, not side by side at the same time, just an alternative screen instead of the laptop one. I am assuming that it is standard for laptops to have the socket so that a monitor can be connected. |
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