Connecting separate monitor to laptop

[Guest]

I have purchased a 22" LCD flat panel wide screen display to connect to my
Gateway laptop model# M500. I can not get it to work. I called gateway to see
if they are compatable and they said it should work! I had Best Buy test the
monitor with a laptop ( different model than mine) and the monitor worked
with the laptop.

I tried holding down the Function key while pressing the F3 key but nothing
happens. I have gone into the Control Panel - Display applet and Device
Manager and configured every possibility and nothing works!!!! I tried
re-installing my video driver, that did nothing also. There are no errors in
Device Manager.

I'm at a lose, don't know what else to do.

Please help.

Titus

 

[Lem]

I have purchased a 22" LCD flat panel wide screen display to connect to my
Gateway laptop model# M500. I can not get it to work. I called gateway to see
if they are compatable and they said it should work! I had Best Buy test the
monitor with a laptop ( different model than mine) and the monitor worked
with the laptop.

I tried holding down the Function key while pressing the F3 key but nothing
happens. I have gone into the Control Panel - Display applet and Device
Manager and configured every possibility and nothing works!!!! I tried
re-installing my video driver, that did nothing also. There are no errors in
Device Manager.

I'm at a lose, don't know what else to do.

Please help.

Titus

When you press and hold Fn then press F3, even if the external monitor
does not show a display, does the laptop screen go blank? Fn+F3 should
cycle through 3 settings: laptop screen only, external monitor only,
both displays together.

If this doesn't work, perhaps you have somehow managed to install a
generic video driver rather than the full-featured one meant for your
laptop. The latest video driver for the Gateway M500 is version 32.20
and is available here: http://tinyurl.com/24blfr

Check your video driver in Device Manager. If it does not appear to be
the correct version, download and install the correct one. Even if it
does appear to be correct, you might want to download and install the
latest one from Gateway anyway, just in case the existing installation
is corrupt. Do yourself a favor and create a System Restore point
before you install the new driver. WinXP has a "driver rollback"
feature that's supposed to allow you to replace a newly-installed driver
with the previous one, but I've seen that not work, and a system restore
may save the day if something gets really messed up.