How do I stop my monitor configuration from changing automatically on my laptop?
hass asked:
Whenever I close the lid of my laptop the monitor configuration changes. The external monitor becomes the main display. When I open the lid I have to set up the displays again. How do I stop this from happening?
I have an NVIDIA video card with the NVIDIA Settings Manager.
Whenever I close the lid of my laptop the monitor configuration changes. The external monitor becomes the main display. When I open the lid I have to set up the displays again. How do I stop this from happening?
I have an NVIDIA video card with the NVIDIA Settings Manager.
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You have to set the resulting action for closing the lid to Shut down, Hibernate, or Stand by. I recommend Hibernate.
You are seeing this issue, because your are hitting the automatic feature built into the laptop that if there is no power related action assigned to the lid switch, it assumes you are closing the laptop to use the laptop with an external monitor. Now, I’m sure that you are on occasion closing the laptop to use it to play music… if there is no external monitor. Your model laptop might have a BIOS setting to modify this behavior (my Toshiba does not) as well, but at this point, you should probably make a choice as to what power related action you want your laptop to follow.
You would make this choice in the Advanced Tab of the Power options from the control panel of XP.
You can take the advanced step of disabling the secondary display controller… again depending on your model of laptop. Some laptops will install two display adapters (one for the screen, one for the external) in the Device manager (again, my Toshiba doesn’t, but I’ve reinstalled Windows on enough systems that do). Identifying which is the external and disabling it should keep it from being activated.
But, I’d still go with the Hibernate feature… then maybe set your display to turn off after 15 minutes of not being used, so you just have to almost close your lid when you want to listen to tunes without the display on.