8. Detecting a second or external monitorIf you connect a second screen or external monitor but it isn't recognised, try using the Detect Displays button in System Preferences > Displays. The port may be set to use a resolution that the screen doesn't support. If this doesn't help, restart whilst holding down Command+Alt+[P]+[R] until you hear the startup chime twice. This resets the PRAM and often forces the Mac to scan its ports and look again at what is connected. This usually brings the monitor online. It also helps with forcing a Mac to recognise external audio devices.Yeah, if only that fix worked and KEPT working. My MBP is constantly losing my external monitor. PITA.
iambrucenolan, stop being a troll. I like 7 and it does have features OSX does not have but please stop being a troll! And to comment on the taskbar in 7 compared to the dock in OSX they are nothing alike except in location and that they are both "bars". They don't even behave in the same way...
wastern: I got an Ubuntu Dell, and Everything Just Works...but maybe not on your Designed for Windows machine.. yet.We're tackling the hardware that's out there now, sometimes it's not pretty, often it is. At the end of the day, we will support all hardware, and OSX will not.
yes but no. My internal drive (the superdrive) died long ago. What I have now is an external firewire unit and the eject button just don't work with it. I figured all I have to do is re-link, if I may call it that, the eject function to the eternal drive. I don't know how. No one seam to know how. "drutil tray open" in Terminal is probably the only alternative I have to "trashing" the DVD/CD icon.
diggimatorJan 12, 2009
Use Safari or Opera. If you still have problems, then it's not Firefox's fault.
slidexdJan 12, 2009
Wait, am I a super power user, 'cause this stuff sounded pretty obvious to me
cawpinJan 12, 2009
8. Detecting a second or external monitorIf you connect a second screen or external monitor but it isn't recognised, try using the Detect Displays button in System Preferences > Displays. The port may be set to use a resolution that the screen doesn't support. If this doesn't help, restart whilst holding down Command+Alt+[P]+[R] until you hear the startup chime twice. This resets the PRAM and often forces the Mac to scan its ports and look again at what is connected. This usually brings the monitor online. It also helps with forcing a Mac to recognise external audio devices.Yeah, if only that fix worked and KEPT working. My MBP is constantly losing my external monitor. PITA.
jhaksJan 12, 2009
iambrucenolan, stop being a troll. I like 7 and it does have features OSX does not have but please stop being a troll! And to comment on the taskbar in 7 compared to the dock in OSX they are nothing alike except in location and that they are both "bars". They don't even behave in the same way...
satcomerJan 12, 2009
Wow I use the free AppCleaner or the donationware AppDelete.
ethana2Jan 13, 2009
wastern: I got an Ubuntu Dell, and Everything Just Works...but maybe not on your Designed for Windows machine.. yet.We're tackling the hardware that's out there now, sometimes it's not pretty, often it is. At the end of the day, we will support all hardware, and OSX will not.
iambrucenolanJan 13, 2009
Jhaks:I'm not trolling! If one comment supporting 7 is trolling then hell 95% of Digg is a troll!
virguleJan 15, 2009
yes but no. My internal drive (the superdrive) died long ago. What I have now is an external firewire unit and the eject button just don't work with it. I figured all I have to do is re-link, if I may call it that, the eject function to the eternal drive. I don't know how. No one seam to know how. "drutil tray open" in Terminal is probably the only alternative I have to "trashing" the DVD/CD icon.
dcolleyJan 17, 2009
Simple do not install anything made by Microsoft on it. Presto everything works perfectly.