[Ti] Forcing 400 to use external screen

[Daniel Rubinstein]

Boot up and close the lead of the PB. Then wake it up by moving the 
mouse. It should recognize the second screen and use it as the main. 
The screen on my PB 550 got busted a year ago and i been using it in 
this way with an external monitor without problems.

Hope it helps

Daniel



On Mar 14, 2004, at 10:01 PM, John wrote:

>> I auired a 400 with a broken screen.  When it boots, it is using the 
>> external as a second and I cant get to the menus. Is there a way to 
>> force it to use the external screen or cause it to use the external 
>> as the main?
>
> Well, this may take some trial and error, but do the following:
>
> Boot the machine
>
> Do an
>
> option F2 (option plus one of the brightness keys)
>
> and once the monitors control panel starts up, try to get the cursor 
> on the good screen. Once that is accomplished, attempt to locate the 
> title bar of the monitors control panel on the Ti's screen. At this 
> point, you can drag that control panel to the good display, and switch 
> the menubar to the good screen. in Panther, the screen starts up 
> nearly all the way to the top of the screen, and in the middle (from 
> side to side).
>
> This is really the best I could think of. Perhaps someone with an 
> identical model/OS could save their prefs file and send it to you, as 
> I assume you can at least browse files.
>
> You can also try hitting "detect displays", which should be the key 
> shortcut
>
> command F2
>
> This may or may not cycle through the display options properly.
>
> Good luck!
>
>
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