Subj : Re: Power Point
To   : JAY EMRIE
From : Alan Zisman
Date : Sat Sep 10 2005 05:13 pm

-=> JAY EMRIE wrote to ALAN ZISMAN <=-

 JE> InFocus states there is no known conflicts between the projector and
 JE> the Toshiba laptop.

 JE> Chopped off ONLY at the bottom?  Not on the sides or top? Also, when
 JE> booting up the correct (not chopped off anywhere) boot up screens are
 JE> displayed on the projector but the computer screen is black then. I
 JE> have since installed a monitor in place of the projector and get
 JE> identical results. So it isn't the projector - it is the laptop.

 JE> When booting up, the external monitor displays the Windows boot
 JE> displays and the laptop screen is black. After the boot up is complete,
 JE> the external monitor goes black and the laptop screen takes over.

 JE> So far I have been unable to get into the BIOS setup of the laptop.
 JE> There is scads of messages on  this very thing - stating the BIOS is
 JE> inaccessible on some Toshiba laptops!

 JE> I will call Toshiba next week and hope they have a possible solution.

 1) Remember that the screen resolution shifts several times during startup... 
at first, it's in the computer's default text mode (80 characters x 25 lines, I 
think)... the boot graphic is in graphical 320x400 mode. Finally, the display 
is switched to your computer's Windows setting (1024x768, etc). It sounds like 
something is happening at the times of the various resolution changes.

 2) Many of the older Toshiba laptops that I've worked with required software 
to access the BIOS settings... check at Toshiba.com; they're pretty good (in my 
experience) continuing to host drivers and utilities for older models-- this 
should include the BIOS setup software. Usually there are both DOS versions 
(often included on a bootable floppy disk image) and Windows versions. I've 
found their website reasonably well-organized, making it fairly straightforward 
to locate the needed files. So check their website before you phone them.
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