W3V External monitor?

I was wondering how we turn off the LCD screen on our notebook and have the desktop displayed on a connected external monitor? Right now I can only get it to extend the screen to external monitor or turn off the notebook screen but still only have extended desktop displayed on external monitor.

 

When you "extend" your desktop, you're creating a dual view - multiple desktops if you will, correct?

Your start button and all of that is still located on your notebook, right? If you do a clone view, where both the notebook and the desktop see the same thing (this is often used for projecting powerpoint presentations or something. When you use it in that mode you can turn off the notebook lcd and actually close the lid and use an external keyboard if you want. That's the method I usually use when I plug that into my external monitor.

 

sorry for asking, but how do you do a clone view?

 

Well when you hit "Fn + F8" you have the option for LCD only; CRT only, or LCD + CRT..... the last one will keep both the notebook screen and the external screen on. CRT only is what you want to choose to turn off your notebook display and just export to the other screen. This is the standard export. If you do "extend windows desktop" ...... that's creating a "dual view"...... where you have physically two different desktops that you can open different programs on at the same time.

You want to do this extend because I think I remember you'd trying to use an external SXGA+ monitor..... which apparently that's the only way to do so...

 

does the graphics card go crazy from all the resolution changes? do you have to do it manually?
cause the w3v runs at 1440 x 900 while a regular lcd is 1280 x 1024 or some other 4:3 resolution

 

wow... i want your W3V... mine runs at like 1024x900 or something.

 

i have to say that non-dvi is extremeley noticable on my monitor.... even my background looks worse... looks very dull.

 

Haha... no the W3 runs at 1280 x 1024.......... It can output resolutions up past 2000 x something..... I forget what the level above WUXGA is, but it can do it.

The graphics card can handle it with ease......

 

the W3 runs at 1280x1024.... are you sure? I thought it was 1280 x 900 or something.

 

whoops, 1280 x 768.... I slipped as I was most aware of the grossly over-res claim by Aleksandr.

I can tell from experience, the only monitor I could see differences between RGB and DVI is my 23" LCD. Your background color should not look different. Unless you have a fast 16ms or lower panel and a screen larger than 19", there is absolutely NO visible difference in quality. You'll see more artifacting (if that's a word) when you're doing high res / fast gaming....... I belive you have that Dell 20" widescreen. It's a great bang for your buck screen, but it's cheap for a reason. You shouldn't have any issue unless you're gaming and even then, I don't think the refresh rate on that monitor is good enough regardless of RGB or DVI..... your background image should not be effected at all. Make sure your refresh rate is set correctly......... in DVI you don't have to set refresh and stuff like that... but on RGB you do.

 

oops, my bad.
i have a w3v and am planning to get an external monitor for it (i have a dead pixel at the bottom left corner =(), so this is a really useful thread!

 

No problem.