W7J Cannot Output to LCD + CRT (help)

Received my W7J last night, and happy with performance so far.

Problem:

I'm 30 minutes away from giving a presentation (posting from conf. room) and the notebook will work in one of two modes:

*LCD only (notebook screen works fine)
*Output to CRT (outputting to projector via VGA-out)

When I switch to the dual-mode (LCD + CRT), the projector will display it for a second then say "Searching for signal...".

Not happy right now. Making alternate presentation plans.

Anyone seen this?

 

I feel for you, but this is certainly one of those things you shouldn't be trying for the first time right before a presentation... I don't want to say it's your fault, but it's not the computers either. Stay calm and you'll make it through.

As long as you can see the projector screen, there's no reason to make other plans as long as you can view the computer from there...... however, dual mode works and I just tried it right now just to verify. It's a matter of how you're using it and how you're set up your display preferences. You could do an extended desktop or a clone view and that's really what you want. If your computer is outputting a much higher resolution, there's a chance the projector can't figure out what's going on and just says screw it. One easy way to work with a projector is to drop the powergear software down to presentation mode and that should automatically drop your res to 800x600, which should also make it easier to see exactly what's going on with the notebook and the projector.

 

works fine for me.

 

Yeah, most projectors don't like getting a widescreen resolution input. They usually want either 800x600 or 1024x768.

 

Slight delay here- I'll try the 800x600

 

Same problem here, see my post regarding the issue. Most of the time you have to adjust your laptop screen res to match the res of the projector, however while some things run, it seems that the w7j is buggy with video clips shown on screen. You see the frame of the windows media player and the progress bar moving but no image, just a black box. THis happens to me when I toggle to the CRT+LCD mode, CRT only works. This is clealry a bug in the w7j as my vaio s380p running a ge force go 6200 works fine as does my older ibm t40, my friends dell (after a bio update) etc. It is the computer's fault in my case, my projector supports 1280 x 800, 1024 x 768, and 800 x 600 none of these resolutions allows me to use the lcd + crt option to show movies. This is a negative when lecturing to large numbers. As I have said none of my other notebooks have this issue except and older dell latitude x1 which did allow simulataneous crt and lcd viewing after a bios upgrade.

 

You're referring to this post?
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=65851

What other media player software have you tried? Did you try VLC media player? I hope there's a resolution to this eventually, as I was hoping to use the W7j to show video on a projector through the VGA out (and need to see the LCD at the same time).

 

OK- I guess 800x600 is the way to go. I had no way to test outside of the 30 minutes early that I arrived, but things worked out in the end.