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DVA2548
Captain, B767-300
Joined on August 20 2005
"Step on the ball" Stanhope, NJ USA
95 legs, 187.6 hours
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Posted onPost created on
March 13 2006 17:23 ET by Trevor Sherba
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I inherited an older laptop today. I want to use it as a second monitor. My problem is that I have been reading around and all i see is this program called MaxiVista. What i really want to do is use the laptop screen and connect it to my video card using my video card drivers, and not the maxivista driver that installs with the program.
Laymens terms-How can i directly connect the laptop screen to my second video card port?
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DVA2548
Captain, B767-300
Joined on August 20 2005
"Step on the ball" Stanhope, NJ USA
95 legs, 187.6 hours
76 legs,
134.2 hours online 87 legs,
171.6 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
March 13 2006 17:42 ET by Trevor Sherba
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I was thinking. Could i just connect the two with a VGA cable?
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DVA1008
Senior Captain, B757-200
Joined on December 14 2002
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"Fly 'till the map turns blue" Kokomo, IN
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792.3 hours ACARS 35 legs,
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Posted onPost created on
March 13 2006 17:47 ET by Matt Young
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I don't think that is possible, but I could be wrong. Connecting them with a VGA cable wouldn't do anything since the VGA out of the laptop is an output only. Think of it as trying to plug a microphone into a speaker output.
Matt YoungSenior Captain, B757-200
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DVA2548
Captain, B767-300
Joined on August 20 2005
"Step on the ball" Stanhope, NJ USA
95 legs, 187.6 hours
76 legs,
134.2 hours online 87 legs,
171.6 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
March 13 2006 17:54 ET by Trevor Sherba
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Im not sure. I do know that if i did that, It would have to me a double sided male cable. Im not affraid of disassembling the unit also
EDIT: Maybe it would be possible with an S-Video cable?
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DVA1855
Senior Captain, B777-200
OLP
Joined on August 28 2004
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DVA Fleet Master
"Life Begins @ Vmc Life Ends @ Vne+1" Philadelphia, PA
436 legs, 1,824.8 hours
113 legs,
445.8 hours online 297 legs,
1,208.2 hours ACARS 9 legs,
47.9 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
March 13 2006 19:08 ET by Andrew Rogers
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the ports on a laptop are output only (i beleve) the only way I can think of is to disassemble the unit and convert the plugs to VGA or S-vidio
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DVA2548
Captain, B767-300
Joined on August 20 2005
"Step on the ball" Stanhope, NJ USA
95 legs, 187.6 hours
76 legs,
134.2 hours online 87 legs,
171.6 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
March 13 2006 19:11 ET by Trevor Sherba
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does anybody know how i could convert the thing to VGA?
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DVA2253
Senior Captain, DC-8-61
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862 legs, 1,344.5 hours
108 legs,
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Posted onPost created on
March 13 2006 20:27 ET by George Lewis
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Better idea Trevor - why not use the old laptop as an internet browser and PDF viewer for charts and stuff? you could run WideFS and run your ACARS on it as well. All you'd have to do is give it a network cable to your switch and a valid IP address for your subnet and you're ready to go. How old is the laptop?
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DVA2548
Captain, B767-300
Joined on August 20 2005
"Step on the ball" Stanhope, NJ USA
95 legs, 187.6 hours
76 legs,
134.2 hours online 87 legs,
171.6 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
March 13 2006 21:56 ET by Trevor Sherba
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Its an older dell inspiron. Im actually loading windows XP on it right now as we speak.
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DVA1855
Senior Captain, B777-200
OLP
Joined on August 28 2004
50 State Club
Everett 250 Club
Kangaroo Club
Online Century Club
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DVA Fleet Master
"Life Begins @ Vmc Life Ends @ Vne+1" Philadelphia, PA
436 legs, 1,824.8 hours
113 legs,
445.8 hours online 297 legs,
1,208.2 hours ACARS 9 legs,
47.9 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
March 13 2006 23:47 ET by Andrew Rogers
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thts what i would do, utilise the prossesor!
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DVA2548
Captain, B767-300
Joined on August 20 2005
"Step on the ball" Stanhope, NJ USA
95 legs, 187.6 hours
76 legs,
134.2 hours online 87 legs,
171.6 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
March 14 2006 12:23 ET by Trevor Sherba
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I could actually do that, but there is something wrong with the keyboard on it. Whenver i press a certain letter, it registeres as multiple differnet key presses. Any idea how i could do this? I just reformatted it and put xp on it.
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DVA2960
Captain, B737-800
Joined on December 17 2005
"Hey! Watch out for that ...." Southeastern United States
21 legs, 17.7 hours
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Posted onPost created on
March 14 2006 16:49 ET by Ken Jones
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the laptop should have a ps/2 port to utilize an external keyboard. Nothing says you have to use the onboard one. also you could forgo a keyboard altogether and use a destkop management package like RDP or vnc or pcanywhere or something of that nature to control the desktop remotely, and subsequently the keyboard.
also, if its new enough to have usb ports you can use a usb keyboard.
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DVA2548
Captain, B767-300
Joined on August 20 2005
"Step on the ball" Stanhope, NJ USA
95 legs, 187.6 hours
76 legs,
134.2 hours online 87 legs,
171.6 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
March 14 2006 17:25 ET by Trevor Sherba
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Well i can use a usb keyboard, but unfortunately i dont have the space for it. im tight for space as it is. I would run maxivista on it but it doesnt have an ethernet slot because its not new enough. Does anyone know how i could network the computers utalizing a phone cable (modem) i tried toying around with it without luck
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DVA2960
Captain, B737-800
Joined on December 17 2005
"Hey! Watch out for that ...." Southeastern United States
21 legs, 17.7 hours
20 legs,
16.5 hours online 18 legs,
13.6 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
March 14 2006 21:31 ET by Ken Jones
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its got a pcmcia slot correct?? you can get a wired or wireless pccard network adaptor for next to nothing nowadays. hek i think wal-mart stocks them now
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DVA2980
Captain, MD-11
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Joined on March 15 2006
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Springfield, IL
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59 legs,
132.8 hours online 829 legs,
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hours
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Posted onPost created on
March 19 2006 00:05 ET by Stanley Swank II
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HELLO,
The keyboard problem is probably due to one of two things...
1) frayed connection wires to the motherboard,
2)liquid was spilled on the keyboard
The problem is that when a key is pressed a circuit is formed. Based on the location of the key a signal is sent to the motherboard. If something like above is done, the signal "shorts" or "jumps" and multiple signals are sent. Since the OS simply interprets these signals and maps them to the correct letter,function key you will get all of the signals at onece(linear processing) showing up as multiple keypresses. As for the VGA issue, I will have to do some looking. I am a computer scientist (software engineer,programmer,support) also Hardware debugger.
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DVA2960
Captain, B737-800
Joined on December 17 2005
"Hey! Watch out for that ...." Southeastern United States
21 legs, 17.7 hours
20 legs,
16.5 hours online 18 legs,
13.6 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
March 21 2006 12:35 ET by Ken Jones
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Well, actually when the key is pressed and a circuit is formed only one signal is sent per key. The signal is picked up by the keyboard controller which recognizes the signal from the key matrix and sends the OS the appropriate key code. The OS doesn't actually receive the signal sent from the key.
Ken Jones
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, Cisco Certified Network Associate, Microsoft Certified Database Administrator.
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