Lisan Obelisk

I'm a little confused - I know WinXP offers multiple monitor support, but I assume this means the PC must be equipped with say 2 graphics cards for 2 monitors.

What I have is a Dell Laptop, Inspiron 8500 with a GeForce Mobile 4600 graphics chipset.

It outputs to the laptops screen by default but also has an external VGA socket like all laptops do.

I can't seem to get a display on the external VGA - is this a function of the BIOS, the WinXP display control panel, or the NVidia display control panel ?

I always thought laptops auto-detected if anything was plugged into the external VGA and just used that, but its not the case with this.

Any help would be appreciated.

TopBanana

Try hitting Fn-F8

rogp

jlanng is right, FN+F8 toggles between LCD and CRT (assuming you have a monitor connected)

CodeKey@Lisan

thanks for that - I'll give it a try

Fig

Fn-F7 on mine