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How do I set up the display and audio for a projector, monitor, or television using my notebook with Microsoft Windows 7?
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How do I set up the display and audio for a

projector, monitor, or television using my notebook
with Microsoft Windows 7?
How do I set up the display and audio for a projector, monitor, or television using my
notebook with Microsoft Windows 7?

You can use your notebook for giving presentations by connecting an external monitor,
projector, or television to your notebook's VGA or optional HDMI port. This notebook
supports the simultaneous use of your notebook's LCD and an external display.
Simultaneous display lets you control a presentation from your notebook at the same
time as you face your audience.

Follow these steps to set up the display using a projector, monitor, or television:

1. Turn off the notebook.

2. Connect the cable to the projector, monitor, or television.

If you are using the VGA port, connect one end of the VGA cable to the
projector, monitor, or television.
If you are using the HDMI port, connect one end of the HDMI cable to the
monitor, projector, or television.

3. Connect the cable to the notebook.

If you are using the VGA port, connect to the VGA port on the notebook.
If you are using the HDMI port, connect to the HDMI port on the notebook.

4. Turn on the notebook.

5. Plug the projector, monitor, or television power cord into an AC power source and
turn it on. Windows® recognizes the new hardware.
6. In the New Display Detected dialog box, select the options for the projector, 

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monitor, or television, and then click OK .

Note: The New Display Detected dialog box will only appear the first time an
external display is attached. Windows will save the settings for future use with that
external display.

7. Press and hold the FN key and then tap the Display Toggle key to select between
viewing the display only on the LCD panel, viewing the display only on the external
display, and viewing the display on both the LCD panel and the external display.
The Display Toggle key will be either the F4 or the F6 key and will have the following
icon Image. While holding the FN and the Display Toggle key down a viewing option
selection box similar to below will appear.

Once you have the viewing option selected, release both the FN key and the
Display Toggle key to select that viewing option.

Note: If a monitor, projector, or television is connected and you close the LCD panel,
the notebook may turn off the LCD panel, but does not enter Sleep mode.

Follow these steps to adjust the display properties on the external monitor:

1. From the Windows 7 default Start menu, click All Programs , Accessories , and
then click Windows Mobility Center .
2. In the Windows Mobility Center window, click the Change display settings icon
(Display settings).
3. In the Display Settings dialog box, click monitor 2.

Display settings dialog box

4. Adjust the properties such as Resolution or Colors , and then click OK .

Note: Display and resolution options may be limited by the type of display device 
connected to the notebook or the maximum resolution available to the notebook

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itself.

Follow these steps to adjust the display properties for a presentation:

1. From the Windows® 7 default Start menu, click All Programs , Accessories , and
then click Windows Mobility Center .
2. In the Windows Mobility Center window, click Change presentation settings icon
(Presentation projector).
3. In the Presentation Settings dialog box, adjust the properties such as Turn off
screen saver and Set the volume to: , and then click OK .

Presentation dialog box

4. In Windows Mobility Center , in the Presentation Settings box, click Turn on to

turn on the presentation. When you are finished giving the presentation, click Turn
off to return to your standard notebook settings.

Follow these steps to change the audio output settings for the HDMI option:

1. From the Windows 7™ default Start menu, click Control Panel .

2. In Control Panel , using the default Control Panel Home setting, click Hardware
and Sound .
3. In the Hardware and Sound window, under Sound click Manage audio devices .
4. In the Sound dialog box, click to select Digital Output Devices (HDMI) .

Image

5. Click Set Default , and then click OK

Note: The default audio setting for your notebook is Speakers / Headphones . You
must change the audio output back to the Speakers / Headphones option for the
computer to once again be able to use the internal speakers and headphone jack.

Document ID: 5989

Last Updated: 04/23/2019 04:50 AM

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