Satellite A300-237 - Which external monitor?

Hi,
I'd like to buy an external 19'' LCD monitor for my Toshiba Satellite A300-237. Which is the best: 4:3 / 16:9 / 16:10 / 5:4?
Thanks

Hello
What aspect ratio do you prefer?
You should buy a monitor with your favorite aspect ratio.
Generally speaking all external monitor works and according the user manual, your notebook supports up to 2048 horizontal and 1536 vertical pixels at up to 16M colors on external monitor.

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Niels

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So I can have any combination of two of the three displays: built-in display, VGA or HDMI. It would be nice if I could use all three at once but that seems to be a hardware limitation.
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How to connect my Satellite A300-1J1 to HD TV

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i m new in Linux and Ubuntu, i installed ubuntu 8.10 last week;
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just one thing that make me "" it's the cooling ventilator of my laptop, i explain :
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the use of ubuntu, because with xp it's start but if the processor is cold it's stop! and restart and etc.......
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I have spent a fairly nice amount of time trying to figure out what's going on and I've been suspecting the CPU fan for a long time. I went from enumerating the custom drivers Toshiba is installing the the machine to de-compiling the ACPI table using Intel's tools: NOTHING! (expect the fact that the BIOS isn't really ACPI compliant but much more Microsoft Windows Vista only compliant).
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As far as I know the internal LCD supports this resolution:
800x600 16bit/32bit(Clean stretch)
1024x768 16bit/32bit(Clean stretch)
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1024x768 16bit/32bit colors(Depending on CRT)
1280x1024 16bit/32bit colors(Depending on CRT)
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1600x1200 16bit/32bit colors(Depending on CRT)
1680x1050 16bit/32bit colors(Depending on CRT)
1920x1200(W) 16bit/32bit colors(Depending on CRT)
1920x1440 16bit/32bit colors(Depending on CRT)
2048x1536 16bit/32bit colors(Depending on CRT)
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800x600 85Hz (Depending on CRT)
1024x768 85Hz (Depending on CRT)
1280x1024 85Hz (Depending on CRT)
1440x900(W) 60Hz (Depending on CRT)
1600x1200 85Hz (Depending on CRT)
1680x1050 60Hz (Depending on CRT)
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Satellite A300-202 - External display turned a strange color

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Shaking image on external monitor when Satellite A200 is running on AC

Hello
I have this problem which is driving me crazy .... I bought an external monitor for my Toshiba Satellite A200-1s9 laptop but the problem with it is that the image, on the external monitor, is shaking. I tried another monitor, the same, another cable, same problem; the only way how to stop it is to unplug the AC from the laptop.
I also tried to move the monitor further from the laptop but nothing.
I can making stop shaking so hard only if I switch to the AC profile from FULL POWER to Save power ... but even with this the image is still shaking a bit.
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Hi,
hmmm...
I don't think that this has to do something with magnetic fields.
Cause it is related to the power consumption of the computer, it seems that there is a problem with the AC-Adaptor.
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It's a grounding problem
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leading to no color on the TV.
Do you have an annoying buzzing when you connect audio out to an amplifier ? That would be a sign for that.
I had such a problem and solved it by plugging my laptop on AC on another circuit in the house than my audio devices
So experiment with that.
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I have problems with HDMI connection to TV.
At FULL HD resolution is in 42" FULL HD TV about 4 cm black edges all around display.
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With same cables and monitors but other laptop is picture without edges.
When I was tryed with HDMI cable (stl.U500) which have got on the other side DVI output (LCD FULL HD screen) was picture without black edges. With normal VGA - VGA cable is FULL HD picture also without edges.
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Hi
It seems that the native resolution of this screen is 1920 x 1080.
I use the same resolution on my external wide screen monitor.
But I have connected the external screen to my notebook using the DVI cable.
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Have operated my Satellite P750 laptop with external DeII monitor for a year or more now.
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After this finished i found that i was unable to shutdown or restart laptop. It gets to the light blue 'shutting down' screen; HDD light flashes for 5/10 secs then it stops accessing disk with power still on and stuck at blue shutdown screen; laptop even sounds like it shuts down.
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