Annoying discovery while making a presentation with A31p..

[malachont]

Hi all,

Made a presentation with the Thinkpad (with a Video projector) and noticed that while presenting, the LCD display resizes to about a third of its size, and the letters requiring NASA Hubble to read...

all the while, a measly 14" Pentium III Compaq Armada sitting near my unit, a third of the price of mine and only god knows how many times less the video RAM and general oomph, made the same presentation without batting an eyelid nor resizing its LCD screen... isn't 64MB VIdeo RAM enough to support two full 800x600 screens at 16 bit colors? I would have thought so... probably that Armada has something like 16MB video RAM at most..

Windows XP, 512MB RAM, 80GB drive, tried both 1024 and 800 resolutions- and all the options on the Thinkpad's FN+Video key, to no avail.. the only other choice it gives is a completely black LCD...
the usual resolution I work with is 1024x768 and 32bits..

Thanks for your help

[dcg]

Hi! I think You should go in BIOS and set "extended display" or something like that. Play a little with display option in BIOS and you should be fine.

[ramcelroy]

As I type this, I am using my A31p LCD screen resolution 1600 x 1200 32M colors simultaneously presenting on an external analog monitor at 1280 x 1024 SXGA at 32M colors. The system is capable.

[ElbertR]

You can also turn the 'screen expansion' on with the Thinkpad Configuration program. Available from the Levono website.

Select 'LCD' and enable 'screen expansion'. No rebooting or bios changing necessary.