External Display - Panasonic Toughbook CF-51PF66EBM Reference Manual

External Display

You can switch the output destination to an external display.
Connect the external display to the external display port (A).
NOTE
After resuming from hibernation or restarting the computer, the destination may not be the same as the selected in the
previous status.
When you change the display after Windows starts up, do not press any key until switching is complete.
You cannot use the simultaneous display until Windows starts up.
Display switching by pressing Fn+F3 may not work when you use the Fast User Switching function to switch the user.
In this case, log off all users and restart the computer.
Simultaneous display and display switching do not work when [Command Prompt] screen is set to "Full Screen".
When you use the external display only, set the suitable number of colors, resolution, or refresh rate separately from
when you use the internal LCD only or when you use the simultaneous display.
Depending on the settings, some external displays may be distorted or may not display the mouse cursor correctly. In
this case, set the settings to lower value.
When you use the simultaneous display, DVD-Video, MPEG files and other motion image files may not be played back
smoothly.
Carefully read the instruction manual of the external display.
When connecting a monitor that does not conform to the Plug & Play standards, select the display driver accordingly in
the following menu, or use the driver disk supplied with the monitor.
[start] - [Control Panel] - [Appearance and Themes] - [Display] - [Settings] - [Advanced] - [Monitor] - [Properties] -
[Driver] - [Update Driver]
If a picture is not displayed normally, lower the level of [Hardware acceleration] in the following menu.
[start] - [Control Panel] - [Appearance and Themes] - [Display] - [Settings] - [Advanced] - [Troubleshoot]
If you connect an external display via the port replicator (CF-VEB512W), the output switches to the port replicator from
the external display port.
CAUTION
Before disconnecting the external display, switch to the internal LCD by pressing Fn+F3. Otherwise the displayed
image quality may become different from before disconnection (e.g., wrong resolution). In this case, press Fn+F3 to
reset the image quality.
The screen may become distorted due to the following operations. In this case, restart the computer.
• Disconnecting an external display for which you have set high resolution or high refresh rate.
• Connecting/disconnecting an external display during computer operations.
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