I have an acer aspire 5100 and am trying to vue my screen through my tv. I have a vga lead connected to both but my fn F5 button doesn't seem to switch my screen from 1 to the other? can you help

Use window key plus letter P
and select duplicate
Window key on left bottom left of Alt key

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.

Alright 1) Turn your laptop off, connect the cables to your external monitor such as a t.v, monitor screen, through your apropriate source such as HDMI, VGA, or S-vdieo which ever one you are connecting it to. Turn your external Monitor on, and if it is a t.v make sure it's the the correct input otherwise it won't work. Then Turn your computer on, once your computer is in the Operating system and completly loaded, Then you want to press the FN button + the F5 button to swtich your display from your laptop to your external screen. There is a little Icon that appears on the screen that lets you know that it is switching either it's duplicating, to your external monitor only or back to your laptop screen, your screen may go blank for a second once your made your choise. Then you should be god to go.
2) If it doesnt work, you might want to try loading your computer first and then plugging in the cables and turning your tv on.
3) If that doesn't work, then maybe your FN button is disabled, and you need to enable it in acer windows mobility aplication. If you have question let me know.

Since the Acer Aspire One D250 only has VGA output for its video, you will need a VGA cable to connect between the D250 and a TV that accepts VGA input as a video source. The sound is separate. A mini-stereo jack on an audio cable with two RCA phono plugs on the other end would be used to connect the D250 audio output (usually used for headphones) to the left and right audio inputs on the TV. You may need to use the TV setup screens to select the proper video and audio sources. With the TV on and proper video source selected, you now should be able to press Fn and F5 to get a menu in the middle of the D250's screen that allows you to select the video destination by holding down Fn key and pressing the F5 key repeatedly. The single large screen icon (3rd one from the left) is the one to select video output to VGA port only which would send it to your TV. The sound on the D250 does not need to be selected but you may wish to adjust its level and/or properties to be more suitable for TV.

Hi,
Try holding the fn & F5 buttons down for a good few seconds. Try fn and F7 too.
Right-click on the desktop and choose properties, and see if the 2nd monitor is recognised or not.
It might be a duff VGA cable, or crappy MS drivers instead of the real thing. Always worth downloading some fresh ones.

Try going to ACER's website and looking for an updated video driver for this machine. The factory video driver doesn't always support video cloning.

Try fn and f5 or fn and f6!
I know that is wht you do with the 5315.

Hope iv helped.

Make sure you have used the FN + F5 button to switch your laptop to external display.

Also is you are using VGA to component lead be aware that many of these dont work

you need to connect it with VGA. then enable the 2nd monitor


now you should have a wallpaper on the projector, you can drag objects to it by draging them out from the screen.

if you don't have the 2nd screen option. Then hold down the blue FN button and then tap F5 see if the picture comes, the FN + F5 will swap around with the outputs.

Please tell me what operating system you have installed and what the specs your machine are,
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Can you also discribe to me how you have the computer connected to the tv thanks

This will help me understand your problem better thanks