Dell Laptop with Geforce 4200 not switching back from CRT ..

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ANY HELP HERE?

Consider this an official *bump*





gleep@mchsi.com (Erik Tank) wrote in message news:<5ee628c6.0409011357.5f5d1f84@posting.google.com>...
> Used to work like this:
> Hook up an external monitor - FN+F8 - display switches to multi-mode -
> displayed cloned on external monitor and laptop monitor.
>
> Now it is doing this:
> Hook up an external monitor - FN+F8 - Display switches to External
> monitor - pressing FN+F8 will not do anything but make the monitors
> flicker.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas why the laptop is not picking up it's own
> monitor and why the two monitors cannot function at once anymore in
> clone mode?
>
> We can get both monitors on if we extend the windows desktop, but we
> only need it as a cloned desktop. Any suggestions?
>
> Thank you google members!