How to set up your laptop to use with the LRC portable Projector

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2011/10/12 plagwitz Leave a comment Go to comments

re LCD projector
1. First, book the projector from this list of bookable items (manual included).
2. Here is what we have as Projector: <
3. connect the VGA-adapter which is in the package:
4. (if your laptop does not have a secondary VGA connector, you may need to bring an adapter).
5. power the projector on: (also always power it off using the power button; never just pull the power plug).
on your laptop:
1. find the key combination to enable the secondary output
3. right-click the windows desktop, access the graphics card settings;
4. Enable the graphics card to send a video signal to the projector you just connected. . I the projector native resolution is not automatically recognized, it is 1024*768.
If you want to show a slideshow on the projector, go to PowerPoint
1. ribbon, (1) Slide Show/ item: (2)) set up show, and bring up the (3) set up show dialogue
2. here you can configure to show on monitor 2 (numbers correspond toe the numbers 1 and 2 in the graphics card dialogue above): . Same principle as with other dual screen computers, like the teacher station in LRCCOED434.