Video or Display

 

 

Symptom

Problem

Solution

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Screen is blank.

Screen saver is

Press the Spacebar or click

 

 

 

enabled.

with the TouchPad.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your Notebook is in

Press any key.

 

 

 

Sleep mode. This is

 

 

 

 

identified when the

 

 

 

 

power light pulses

 

 

 

 

on and off.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The external monitor

Press the Fn+F3 keys to

 

 

 

display is selected.

switch between the LCD

 

 

 

 

display, external monitor,

 

 

 

 

TV-Out (available on select

 

 

 

 

models), and simultaneous

 

 

 

 

display.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Display is

Brightness and

Press the Fn+F8 keys to turn

 

 

too faint.

contrast controls are

up the brightness. (On select

 

 

 

not set properly.

models, you can adjust the

 

 

 

 

contrast.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Display only fills

Your resolution

On the taskbar, click the

 

 

part of the

settings are not

Start button and point to

 

 

screen.

set properly.

Settings.

 

 

 

 

Click Control Panel.

 

 

 

 

Double-click Display.

 

 

 

 

Click the Settings tab.

 

 

 

 

In the Screen area, click

 

 

 

 

the slider and drag it to the

 

 

 

 

desired resolution.

 

 

 

 

Click OK to accept the new

 

 

 

 

settings, then close the

 

 

 

 

Control Panel window.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Characters are

The external

Restart your Notebook and

 

 

garbled or the

monitor’s resolution

reset the Display settings for

 

 

display flashes

is set too high for

a lower resolution. Refer to

 

 

when your

your Notebook.

the solution for “Display only

 

 

Notebook is

 

fills part of the screen” for

 

 

connected to

 

more details.

 

 

an external

 

 

 

 

monitor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PRESARIO MOBILE INTERNET PC

 

SOLUTIONS 9-11

1400 SERIES

 

 

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