Can anyone advise me on how to go about in using my laptop monitor as my desktop?
Any advice is appreciated.
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Jump to PostDo you mean that you have a desktop computer, but you want to use a laptop monitor for the desktop computer? I don't think you can do this, to the best of my knowledge. Your laptop's video card would need to support a monitor-in connection (I forget whether it's a …
Jump to PostHi,
Cant remember the technical details for this but it is very dificault to use your laptop screen as your desktop monator.
basicaly the screens have no hardware built in to handle a strait vga input. all of the techincal stuff is on the laptop main board. having seid that …
Jump to PostCan anyone advise me on how to go about in using my laptop monitor as my desktop?
Any advice is appreciated.Can't be done. I'm sorry. The circuitry inside the laptop drives the display in a non-standard way -- you can't tap into that signal path.
Speaking as an …
Jump to PostSo are you essentially bypassing the laptop's video card? What handles the actual video processing between the computer processor and monitor? The external computer's video card? The pcmcia card?
Jump to Postthats sounds really cool could you post the link to that card i would like to look into this alittle more. thanks :)
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Thanks for the explanation :)
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