Hello,

I have a Toshiba laptop (quite a good one) which I now use mostly as a
desktop with a large external monitor external keyboard & mouse. It is set
up to use the external monitor exclusively, the laptop's own monitor is
always off. The graphics card is nvidea. I've used this setup for many
months without problem.

A few days ago, while I was working on the pc (I dont remember exactly what
I was doing) the laptop monitor suddenly switched itself on and some parts
of the display moved across to the laptop.

I have managed to get things back as they were (via control panel / display
settings , and using the nvidea controls as well) and all seems fine now.

Does anyone know what might have happened ??????

Thanks for all ideas



KK

I would presume you accidentally hit a keystroke combination that did this.
You do not say if you use an external keyboard. With laptop keyboards that
have a touchpad it is astounding what can happen with accidental keystrokes
while also inadvertently hitting the touchpad. This is compounded by using
Office 2007 depending where the cursor is floating over the ribbon of
abomination at the same time.

You may have a tapping issue with your touchpad. You might want to disable
tapping.

Tyro

"KRK" <trebor@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:emXQltNbJHA.484@xxxxxx

> Hello,
>
> I have a Toshiba laptop (quite a good one) which I now use mostly as a
> desktop with a large external monitor external keyboard & mouse. It is set
> up to use the external monitor exclusively, the laptop's own monitor is
> always off. The graphics card is nvidea. I've used this setup for many
> months without problem.
>
> A few days ago, while I was working on the pc (I dont remember exactly
> what I was doing) the laptop monitor suddenly switched itself on and some
> parts of the display moved across to the laptop.
>
> I have managed to get things back as they were (via control panel /
> display settings , and using the nvidea controls as well) and all seems
> fine now.
>
> Does anyone know what might have happened ??????
>
> Thanks for all ideas
>
> KK

"D Lirious" <fac_187@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:55300F50-3A64-4AB3-9576-CE049DDCF993@xxxxxx

>I would presume you accidentally hit a keystroke combination that did this.
> You do not say if you use an external keyboard. With laptop keyboards that
> have a touchpad it is astounding what can happen with accidental
> keystrokes while also inadvertently hitting the touchpad. This is
> compounded by using Office 2007 depending where the cursor is floating
> over the ribbon of abomination at the same time.
>

You removed the text from the OP. Perhaps,if you hadn't, you would have seen
beneath your response the 1st line in his post:

<snip>
Hello,

I have a Toshiba laptop (quite a good one) which I now use mostly as a
desktop with a large external monitor external keyboard & mouse.