Re: [ilugd] French consumer group files complaints against HP

2006-12-23 Thread Sudev Barar
On 23/12/06, Debarshi Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My F5 key has a rectangle, depicting a monitor, drawn on it. Pressing Fn+F5 switches the display from TFT to external monitor. Do you have any such key? This works without i855crt. AFAIK on the laptops under question the switch was Fn+F4 key

Re: [ilugd] French consumer group files complaints against HP

2006-12-22 Thread Debarshi Ray
No the port is there but external monitor switching does not work. In earlier laptops this would work right from BIOS display onwards. My F5 key has a rectangle, depicting a monitor, drawn on it. Pressing Fn+F5 switches the display from TFT to external monitor. Do you have any such key? This

Re: [ilugd] French consumer group files complaints against HP

2006-12-18 Thread Debarshi Ray
getting ready to sue HP IAC since the last laptop brought with freedos refuses to give feed to external mointor. Are you saying that the laptop does not have the hardware port to connect to an external monitor? The V3000 series of laptop based on Intel Express chipset can only do this vis an

Re: [ilugd] French consumer group files complaints against HP

2006-12-18 Thread Sudev Barar
On 19/12/06, Debarshi Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: getting ready to sue HP IAC since the last laptop brought with freedos refuses to give feed to external mointor. Are you saying that the laptop does not have the hardware port to connect to an external monitor? No the port is there but

[ilugd] French consumer group files complaints against HP

2006-12-15 Thread Sudev Barar
Would this work here? http://www.itworld.com/Comp/1214/061215frenchhp/ Every time we buy a laptop (and I am again going to buy one soon) I find that most of the offerings comes with WIndows bundled and we also end up paying for something we do not want. -- Regards, Sudev Barar

Re: [ilugd] French consumer group files complaints against HP

2006-12-15 Thread Karanbir Singh
Sudev Barar wrote: Would this work here? http://www.itworld.com/Comp/1214/061215frenchhp/ Every time we buy a laptop (and I am again going to buy one soon) I find that most of the offerings comes with WIndows bundled and we also end up paying for something we do not want. not sure about

Re: [ilugd] French consumer group files complaints against HP

2006-12-15 Thread Sudev Barar
On 16/12/06, Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sudev Barar wrote: Would this work here? http://www.itworld.com/Comp/1214/061215frenchhp/ Every time we buy a laptop (and I am again going to buy one soon) I find that most of the offerings comes with WIndows bundled and we also end