T420s - swapping to extended monitor doesnt work

connecting my laptop to a tv or any other external monitor does work but when i try to swap to extended monitor or any other setting my pc shuts down and reboots.
any ideas ??
thank you in advance

Hi
For resolving the mentioned issue , Please try the following
1. Update the Bios to latest version
http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS014992
2. Update the Display Video drivers
http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/research/hints-or-tips/detail.page?&DocID=HT063249
After updating drivers press Fn + F7 to toggle from internal to External Monitor
I hope this helps

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I've just buyed a dual gf4 mx440 with 64Mb and TV-Out, TV-In.
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Well, I bought the GF4-mx440 VTP (8866) back in october, but haven't actually gotten around to testing it until last night, and I ran into the same issues.
For reference, the drivers on my cd are 30.00.
It was quite frustrating, but I did a ton of research and here is what I was able to find out. THis information isn't terribly organized, but bear with me because it's hopefully useful
TV-out on nvidia cards is not as simple as some may say. (Ie. all those who say nvidia has way better drivers than ati ).
Different detonator versions have WIDELY varying tvout support. In Some versions it works, some it works well, some it works poorly and others it doesn't work at all. Quite shocking, but sadly this is true.
Bits of info about the MSI-mx440 vtp itself. The tv out is based on a Seperate chip, the Phillips 7108. This chip handles the tv in and out features. (Geforce4 chips have themselves an "on chip" solution for tvout. But typically when manufactures use a Video In chip, you let that chip handle video out also).
Regarding the 440's bios. There is only one version (as listed through the live update running win9x). HOWEVER there are issues with this card and WinXP, to which the fix is to apply a bios update. I have not tried liveupdate on winxp (I run 98se), but I think that this bios update is only available upon special request to MSI. I'm not sure how it affects the situation(s) under win9x, but supposedly it fixes some winxp issues. (I will be installing XP in a dual boot config shortly, so I'l know for sure soon ). So according to the MSI support FAQ's, there is a bios update to address issues in winXP, that you can only get through special request (assuming you have winxp). I am not sure what the affects would be on win9x system, but since I am giong to dual boot soon, I'll probably have to apply the new bios and find out.
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If you get output to the tv (usually the post info from the motherboard, followed by the win98 startup screen) this means your hardware works fine. (This is what happened to me). Strangely, it made it all the way into windows (on the tv), but typically what happens is that once windows loads you end up with the messed up pinkish brown screen. (I've never been able to have it boot into windows on the tv since then, heh).
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MY cd came with the 30.00 MSI drivers. These gave me that icky pinkish brown flickering screen. Tv-out didnt' work with them. Tried the 31.00 MSI drivers, same thing. This was odd I thought, as the two most recent MSI drivers didn't work. So I tried the MSI 28.90 drivers, same thing with them too.
Finally I tried the MSI 27.20 drivers, and voilla, tv out worked! I was able to extend the desktop, and clone it, was even able to tape a downloaded episode of 24 on my vcr .
Of course using year old drivers is less than ideal (especially for 3d gamming). However, these are the ONLY MSI drivers that have tvout working.
I decided to move on to the nvidia detonator reference drivers, ideally you'd stick with the manufacture MSI, but what can you do. Here is what I have found so far:
27.20 MSI - Works with tv out
27.20 Nvidia - Works with tv out
27.30 Nvidia - This one is interesting, tv out works in extended desktop mode. BUT there is no tab in the options for cloning (the 'nview' tab is missing). So you can't clone, or overlay, only the extended desktop. So it's an "extended desktop only" driver.
27.42 Nvidia - Works with tv out (works same as 27.20s)
28.90 MSI - NO tv out
30.00 MSI - No tv out
31.00 MSI - No tv out
30.82 - Most resent 41.09 Nvidia - Tried them all, no tv out for any of them.
I have yet to try all the 28-29 nvidia reference drivers, so dunno if tvout works with them.
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all the supplied software also crashes "application has encountered an error and cannot continue. sorry for any inconvenience"
the intervideo software (windvr, wincoder, winproducer) and MSI PVI software all crashes as well.
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is there any resolution for this?

I'm sorry gfilitti if I don't have my system listed, but I thought my question was pretty simple...
Has ANYONE been able to make the InterVideo WinProducer 2 software, that comes with the retail version of the MSI G4Ti4200-VTD64 card, work successfully under the Windows XP Home or Pro operating system?
If the answer is YES, then I will begin investigating why my system can't.
If the answer is NO, then I only ask for other people's recommendations of what software WILL work in place of that. I NEED those functions to work. That's why I paid extra for the VIVO.
All we've heard so far in this thread are NO votes. I would like to see just how widespread this is. If I can find ONE person who claims it works fine on his/her computer under Windows XP, then my NEXT question would be if they had to do anything different to make it run, or was it just a straight install? Did they add the program patch available from the MSI website? See where I'm going with this?
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POWER SUPPLY - ANTEC 400W "True Power" w/dual fans
MOTHERBOARD - MSI 645E MAX (MS-6547 Ver 2.0)
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CAPTURE DRIVER - nVidia 1.08
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I upgraded from Mavericks to Yosemite 10.10.01 after being very pleased with it running on my Macbook Pro for a few weeks.
My center screen had issues immediately rendering certain pages in Safari, the App Store and Mail. In particular the google page when it has live search results showing, the App Store updates page also renders badly, and some emails in Mail that are html also don't load as the should. Generally its the top of the page flashing, or the text input box on a page like this thats effected.
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T420s - swapping to extended monitor doesnt work

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