install the driver.
7. Select the name of your printer when it appears in the “Installed Printers” box and click
on the Set As Default Printer button just below the box to assign it as the default printer.
The name of your printer should appear in the “Default Printer” box at the top of the
window.
After you install the new driver, you may want to re-configure the printer using the Connect and
Setup buttons. Click the Help button or refer to the Windows manual if you
need information on how to do this. Once you’ve completed this, you are ready to use the printer
to print in both text and graphics modes.
Connecting A Monitor
The on-board video supports a broad range of CRT monitors. You can connect a standard,
multifrequency desktop monitor to the external monitor port on the computer. It is a standard 15-
pin VGA port. Though the LCD maximum resolution is 640 x 480 x 256 colors, on an external
monitor CRT, it can produce resolutions up to 1024 x 768 x 256 colors. In practice, this means
you should be able to use any VGA or Super VGA monitor from 14’ to 21’ inches with the
WinBookXP, as long as it can support these resolutions. Any standard multifrequency SVGA
monitor can do this.
To connect an external monitor do as follows:
1. Turn off the computer.
2. Plug the monitor cable into the VGA port.
3. Plug the monitor power cord into a power source.
4. Turn on both the monitor and the computer, and run the system Setup and Preferences.
You can switch active display modes under DOS or Windows, by using one of two hot-key
commands.
If you want to set the screen image to display on just one screen, use the ‘Fn’ + ‘F10’ key
command to select between the LCD and the external monitor. The command toggles the
selection between the two.
Typing ‘Fn’ + ‘F6’ simultaneously turns the Simulscan function on or off. Simulscan displays an
image on both the LCD and the external monitor. There is some display limitations in this mode.
See the “Video Drivers & Utilities” section at the end of Chapter Six for more information.
Hi-Color Video Drivers
There are also drivers you can use on an external monitor that display more than 256 colors. You
can use the Windows video utilities described in Chapter Six to select drivers that will display
32,000 or 64,000 colors.f
An external monitor will work in standard resolution (640 x 480 x 16 color VGA mode) with
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