Connecting peripheral devices

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Connecting an external display

 

User

You can connect multiple displays to your desktop, each using a different port on the back of your computer:

Desktop

❑ an LCD screen using the DVI connector,

 

 

 

 

❑ a CRT or LCD screen using the VGA connector,

 

VAIO

❑ a TV using the TV-Out connector.

 

See also Setting up the monitor (page 23) and Using two screens while watching a DVD film

 

Sony

(page 27).

 

Please make note of the following viewing possibilities:

 

 

 

❑If you have a VGA and a DVI display connected at the same time, you can switch from one display to the other (the default is VGA), but you cannot display the image on both at the same time.

❑If you have a VGA and a TV connected, the image is shown on both screens by default.

❑If you have a DVI and a TV connected, the image is shown on both screens by default.

❑If you have a VGA, a DVI and a TV connected, the image will be shown either on both the VGA and the TV, or both the DVI and the TV.

To change your display from VGA to DVI or vice versa, proceed as follows:

1Connect the display(s), as described in Setting up the monitor (page 23) or in the instructions delivered with the display, if applicable.

2Go to Control Panel.

3Click Appearance and Themes then Display. The Display Properties dialog box appears.

4Click the Settings tab.

5Click Advanced.

The ...NVIDIA GeForce FX... dialog box appears.