6625 and external display

when i hook up the zepto to a plasma via vga and take the screen off again i cannot get the laptop display back on with out rebooting. All i get is a blank screen . I have tried fn F4 etc but no joy

 

anyone else tried this on an external display

 

I tried it on my old 17 inch crt monitor.

Connected the monitor

Pressed Fn+F4 and monitor showed my laptop screen and laptop screen went black.

Pressed Fn+F4 again and laptop display came back on

 

Sorry to jump on thread...

Can you run both screens at the same time, so a total resolution of 3360 x 1050? Hope so, since I intend to code on my 6625 (when it arrives!).

 

You mean as an extended view? That should work, at least works on my 6314W & XP pro.

 

Yeah that's what I mean. Cool sounds hopeful!

 

I cant seem to get it to work on my screen. I have 6625wd and vista premium. Not Nvidia or vista can enable the screen

 

Well, I have the same problem.
I can't get my TFT monitor to display anything although it even gets recognized as a "Samsung" which is correct (It's a big Samsung TV with VGA connector).

 

Iv noticed that putting the computer in Sleep and waking it up again makes external screen to work properly, why, I dont know but it shure is stupid

 

Wow. That worked for me! Thank you!
Seems to be an all-purposse solution to stand-by and come back again. It's like the "repair anything option".

The Bios is like one big buggy mess where even the main functionality you really expect to be there is just hidden behind that "procedure".

Maybe the guys who program the BIOS should consider hiring real programmers instead of... whoever is messing around with something they don't know very much about.

Or they should ask for an SDK for the hardware they're programming for. Sorry, but sometimes I just think, some really important part of the BIOS is missing.

One or more of these things could be the reason we still have problems with our BIOSes:
- there is not enough BIOS memory there to get all things programmed properly, so the have to shrink all the code and make compromises and with each step try to get it all working within the constraints
- they don't have proper documentation for the hardware they're dealing with (badly written or completely absent)
- the programmers are complete jerks who usually code HTML pages and for the first time in their life work on a C/assembler project there (I really don't assume and hope THAT)
- the programmers are okay, but are not motivated enough (loan?) to deliver good work
- the Hardware just doesn't support what would be needed to make it work properly (can't imagine that. if a standby can fix so many things, also the BIOS should be capable of doing the same thing... wouldn't that be a great solution? simulate a standby WITHOUT actually going into standby and this at startup-time, so you don't have to do it yourself? Just kidding...)

 

for me it helps to oben the device manager->rightclick->"search for new hardware"(don't know if its called like this, dont have a english BS)
after this Vista detects my old CRT(via VGA) and my TV(via S-video) corectly.
At XP all worked fine