Inspiron 8500 - Mobility 9000 - Wont' switch to CRT Monitor

OK. I give up. Pressing the Fn-F8 button does not switch to a monitor
attached to the CRT port.

I've made sure Adobe font manager is not installed, re-installed all
the latest Dell site Mobility 9000 drivers and verified the CRT works
on other computers just fine.

The LCD display is functioning normally.

I've gone into the display properties and dragged the 2nd monitor over
the 1st and extended the display, but nothing seems to actually
activate the display on the CRT port It's acting like either the CRT
port is actually dead or the software switch isn't working.

Running Windows XP Home/SP2 will all fixes up to date.

If anyone has a fix to this problem, I'd appreciate it.

Paul

"Ramapo" <> wrote in message
news:...
> OK. I give up. Pressing the Fn-F8 button does not switch to a monitor
> attached to the CRT port.
>
> I've made sure Adobe font manager is not installed, re-installed all
> the latest Dell site Mobility 9000 drivers and verified the CRT works
> on other computers just fine.
>
> The LCD display is functioning normally.
>
> I've gone into the display properties and dragged the 2nd monitor over
> the 1st and extended the display, but nothing seems to actually
> activate the display on the CRT port It's acting like either the CRT
> port is actually dead or the software switch isn't working.
>
> Running Windows XP Home/SP2 will all fixes up to date.
>
> If anyone has a fix to this problem, I'd appreciate it.
>
> Paul

This is probably obvious, but the monitor was connected and turned on BEFORE
you booted the computer?

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:33:07 -0500, "Tom Scales" <>
wrote:

>
>"Ramapo" <> wrote in message
>news:.. .
>> OK. I give up. Pressing the Fn-F8 button does not switch to a monitor
>> attached to the CRT port.
>>
>> I've made sure Adobe font manager is not installed, re-installed all
>> the latest Dell site Mobility 9000 drivers and verified the CRT works
>> on other computers just fine.
>>
>> The LCD display is functioning normally.
>>
>> I've gone into the display properties and dragged the 2nd monitor over
>> the 1st and extended the display, but nothing seems to actually
>> activate the display on the CRT port It's acting like either the CRT
>> port is actually dead or the software switch isn't working.
>>
>> Running Windows XP Home/SP2 will all fixes up to date.
>>
>> If anyone has a fix to this problem, I'd appreciate it.
>>
>> Paul
>
>This is probably obvious, but the monitor was connected and turned on BEFORE
>you booted the computer?
>
Good question. Yes. The monitor is connected and the machine then
cold booted.

Paul

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 20:46:24 GMT, Ramapo <> wrote:

>On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:33:07 -0500, "Tom Scales" <>
>wrote:
>
>>
>>"Ramapo" <> wrote in message
>>news:. ..
>>> OK. I give up. Pressing the Fn-F8 button does not switch to a monitor
>>> attached to the CRT port.
>>>
>>> I've made sure Adobe font manager is not installed, re-installed all
>>> the latest Dell site Mobility 9000 drivers and verified the CRT works
>>> on other computers just fine.
>>>
>>> The LCD display is functioning normally.
>>>
>>> I've gone into the display properties and dragged the 2nd monitor over
>>> the 1st and extended the display, but nothing seems to actually
>>> activate the display on the CRT port It's acting like either the CRT
>>> port is actually dead or the software switch isn't working.
>>>
>>> Running Windows XP Home/SP2 will all fixes up to date.
>>>
>>> If anyone has a fix to this problem, I'd appreciate it.
>>>
>>> Paul
>>
>>This is probably obvious, but the monitor was connected and turned on BEFORE
>>you booted the computer?
>>
>Good question. Yes. The monitor is connected and the machine then
>cold booted.
>
>Paul
One thing I've just noticed is that when I'm in the Device Manager,
there's never a secondary video processor shown, just the one Mobility
Radeon 9000. Should a secondary video processor be visible?
Paul