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IT WORKS!! Thanks Don, everything worked exactly as you outlined, AFTER I disabled Enhanced Video in the Thinkpad Setup - Video Controller and set DISPLAY to CRT only. So, thanks again to everyone who provided input on this. Ain't collaboration grand! My XP17 looks great and I'm now off to get that little Power Toy. :-) Looking at the BIG picture Pat At 11:49 AM 9/19/96 PDT, you wrote: > >[Pat wrote:] >-> Note: I do have some enhanced video features. ie. I can input from the TV >-> or output to a TV. My problem is, with this nice NEC MultiSync XP17 that I >-> just bought, I would like to make use of the higher output resolutions to >-> the external monitor. When I go into display, the options are all greyed >-> out for higher than 640x480 resolution. Also no screen rotation which I >-> used under 3.1 when using the LCD display panel feature. (I have a CDV). >-> >-> Do you have the higher external video resolutions available? > >Apparently under Win95, you don't use the Video Features program to change >these settings -- you use the Win95 mechanisms. Open your Display control >panel and select the Settings tab, then Change Display Type. > >Make sure Adapter Type is Western Digital. Set Monitor Type to "Laptop >Display Panel (1024x768)". You'll likely need to reboot. Once you do, >again go into Display, then Settings, and the Desktop Area (resolution) bar >should now be active. On my 755CD, I can switch between: > 640x480 16-bit (High) Color > 640x480 8-bit (256) Color > 800x600 8-bit (256) Color > 1024x768 8-bit (256) Color >(Which reverts to just the 640x480 flavors when the notebook isn't connected >to an external monitor). > >Win95 does the switch on-the-fly (no reboot needed) and if it works, expects >you to click to retain the new setting, otherwise it times out after a few >seconds and restores the previous video mode. (I guess they expect it will >fail.) > >There's a Win95 PowerToy from Microsoft called QuickRes which puts a little >icon in the system bar and allows you to switch modes quickly w/o going >through the Display applet. > >When I was playing with this a few weeks back, I found that switching between >Laptop Display, CRT, or Both was best done using the Fn-F7 and not IBM's Video >Features program. The former worked, the latter crashed. However, I don't >have the latest BIOS burned so this might have been fixed. > >..Don Markuson > d.markuson@ieee.org > ===========================================================================| O _ | Pat Presidente District Technology Resource Teacher| |_-/_| | Pat_Presidente@sd72.bc.ca SD 72 445 Pinecrest Rd | | | | Ph 604-830-2353 Fx 604-830-2329 Campbell River, B.C. V9W 3P2 | ===========================================================================| "It's a half an inch of water and you think you're gonna drown"-John Prine | ===========================================================================|