Toshiba TECRA A2 manual Reboot your machine

Display Controller and Modes

6.When the LCD (internal liquid crystal display) display mode is selected, the Virtual (Virtual Screen) display mode can be set as follows. However, afterwards, it may not possible to change the screen resolution to more than 1280 x 1024 pixels in Highest (32bit) mode (for example, when you attempt to set the resolution to 1600 x 1200 using the Screen resolution slide bar and then select Highest (32bit) mode from the Color quality drop-down menu).

In these cases, perform the steps below:

First, use the Screen resolution slide bar to select the 1024 x 768 resolution, and then change the resolution to more than 1280 x 1024 and select Highest (32bit) from the Color quality drop-down menu.

7.With the factory preset settings, when the system is started or resumed from the Hibernation mode, the Windows desktop screen is displayed on the display device used in the previous session, if it is detected.

However, you can specify the CRT (external LCD) as a default display device at a startup or when recovering from Hibernation (sleep) mode, even when the LCD (internal liquid crystal display) was used in the previous session. The Windows desktop screen will appear on the CRT (external LCD). To configure this setting, install "TOSHIBA Display Service for Ext.Monitor" and restart the machine in the following manner.

a.Select the "TOSHIBA Application Installer" from the icon or start menu on a desktop.

b.Since "TOSHIBA Application Installer" window starts and click the Next button.

c.Select the Choose "TOSHIBA Display Service for Ext.Monitor" option in the "Choose an item and press the Install button" section, and click the Install button.

d.Follow the instructions on the screen of the "TOSHIBA Display Service for Ext.Monitor" installer to complete the installation.

e.Reboot your machine.

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