Attaching an External Monitor
Considerations
The primary display is always the LCD of your computer and the
secondary display is either a CRT or a television.
You can select up to 64K colors for your secondary display,
either the CRT or the television.
You can select a resolution up to 1024x768 for your secondary
display.
You cannot set the dual display if you specify the primary display
(the LCD) to a 1024x768 resolution and 16M colors for color
depth.
The followings are the settings that you are
not
supported:
Secondary
(CRT or TV)
1280x1024,256 1024x768,64K
Primary
(LCD)
1024x768,64K
1024x768,64K1024x768,64K
800x600,16M
The following table shows the display mode when you use the
television:
You need to enable the television settings every time you start
$ your computer to use this function with the TV as the secondary
$ display or the simultaneous display.
Resolution Color
Depth
Display Mode for Television
640x480 256, 64K The whole image is shown on the screen.
800x600 256, 64K The whole image is shown on the screen.
1024x768 256, 64K The image is shown as a virtual screen.
(On the LCD the whole image is shown
on the screen.)
1280x1024 256 The image is shown as a virtual screen.
$ You cannot use 16M colors on the television. You cannot
$ display the output only with the television.
You can use the television only with the LCD, not with an
external monitor (CRT).
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