I have an Acer Aspire netbook that I want to hook to a projector. I finally got the right cord to hook it up, but it will not display on the projector screen.

The only option is using the VGA port on the Aspire One to hook it up to the TV.


Your TV must have a VGA in port for your to be able to hook your computer to your TV. All you need is a regular VGA cord.

The Acer One netbook has a mini-VGA port on its left side. Page 10 of Acer's QuickGuide shows the port as item 3 External display (VGA) port. But unfortunately, the description shown for it is incorrect.
From your description, your projector's lead likely has a mini-VGA connector on the end as pictured. The connector can simply be plugged into the mini-VGA port but there are no holes beside the port for screws so it would just be a friction fit which should be sufficiently secure for most puposes. The connector and port are mini-DB 15 male and female respectively and can only fit one-way. The port has the wide side of the D on top so you would have to turn the pictured connector over to be able to plug it into the port. Windows XP should be able to detect the projector via plug-and-play installing any display drivers if required. Page 8 of Acer's UserGuide describes Hotkey + Display toggle which switches display output between the display screen, external monitor (if connected) and both. Pressing + with the projector plugged in will bring up a window in the middle of the screen allowing the selection of internal display, external display, both, or a 800x600 VGA projector. If the display is on the projector, unplugging the cable should automatically revert display back to the internal screen. For VGA see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VGA_connector

Depending on which version of windows you are using - you will need to select the monitor/ TV setting option from the laptop. This is what I believe you have already done. Have you tried with different display resolutions?

Finally do you actually select the TV from the F4/ F5 keys on the laptop. Do you see the laptop screen go blank briefly?

Hook up computer to projector AFTER projector is turned on. Power on.
Right click on your desktop
Click on Graphics Options
Click on Output To
Click on Intel (R) Dual Display Clone
Click on Notebook + Monitor

The Aspire One has an external VGA port so you will use that and a VGA cable to connect to the projector. You may have to press the Display mode button (typically Fn+one of the function keys with the rectangle 'display' on it) to enable the external VGA port.

just connect the vga cable to vga port of laptop and to the projector and in projector choose the source of display vga or pc mode and in laptop press f5 button or right click on desktop and choose the display mode lcd +monitor it will show you the display on projector.

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Hook up computer to projector AFTER projector is turned on. Power on.
Right click on your desktop.
Click on Graphics Options.
Click on Output To.
Click on Intel (R) Dual Display Clone.
Click on Notebook + Monitor.

You may have the settings on your computer set to a resolution your projector can not handle.

Hi,
It should be a keyboard toggle to switch display to the projector, usually Fn + F5, sometimes you have to tap the F5 key a couple of times for the display to switch over.


Good luck

You might have not enabled your computers second display.

This is actually a very nice feature, because you could run your powerpoint slide on the monitor while still running your normal applications on the laptop screen.

Go into control panel, display properties and then click on the "second" monitor (you could click on "Identify" to see which is which) and then select the "expand my desktop onto this screen.

The LCD display will be just a normal background, but you can drag windows from your laptop screen onto the LCD and back.

Hope this helps