PowerPoint Hookup to Overhead Projector

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I'm getting ready to teach on a cruise ship and I am working on a PowerPoint presentation. Can anyone tell me how to show a PowerPoint presentation on an overhead? They state in out contract we can use PowerPoint but I can't get a hold of anyone on the ship and our contact person doesn't seem to know a lot. I'm not sure what I would need to take with me to even conect my laptop or how it works? I'm guessing a USB cable would work, just not sure? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
skc
 
skc,

How do I hook up this video projector?
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00370.htm
I'm guessing a USB cable would work, just not sure?
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Nope.

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TAJ Simmons
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I'm getting ready to teach on a cruise ship and I am working on a PowerPoint presentation. Can anyone tell me how to
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show a PowerPoint presentation on an overhead? They state in out contract we can use PowerPoint but I can't get a hold
of anyone on the ship and our contact person doesn't seem to know a lot. I'm not sure what I would need to take with me
to even conect my laptop or how it works? I'm guessing a USB cable would work, just not sure? Any help would be
appreciated.
 
skc said:
I'm getting ready to teach on a cruise ship and I am working on a
PowerPoint presentation. Can anyone tell me how to show a PowerPoint
presentation on an overhead? They state in out contract we can use
PowerPoint but I can't get a hold of anyone on the ship and our contact
person doesn't seem to know a lot. I'm not sure what I would need to
take with me to even conect my laptop or how it works? I'm guessing a
USB cable would work, just not sure? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
skc
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Are you sure they have an overhead projector (OHP) and not a data
projector?
The only way I know of using an OHP with powerpoint/computer is with the
use of a tablet, but I haven't seen one of those for a while...
 
TAJ on the link it states a cable with the 15 pin plug so is it referring to the older style monitor cables that had the 15 on 1 end and the 9 on the other? I just hooked my notebook up to an older monitor cable and got it to work just fine by toggling with the FN, F5.

It also states on the link the following which scares me a little…

Can you plug in a 9 pin cable when the computer is turned on? I know you can do it with the USB’s but I ruined a keyboard years ago by plugging it in with the computer on. Just don’t want to mess up the notebook.

Thanks so much for your help TAJ

skc
 
TAJ on the link it states a cable with the 15 pin plug so is it referring to the older style monitor cables that had
the 15 on 1 end and the 9 on the other?

The cable is shaped in a d-shape. It's commonly called a 15pin plug....even though sometimes only 9 are used!
This kind of thing....
http://images.google.com/imgres?img...mages?q=monitor+cable&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
I just hooked my notebook up to an older monitor cable and got it to work just fine by toggling with the FN, F5. Good.


It also states on the link the following which scares me a little.
If this doesn't work, try restarting the PC without the projector attached, then attach the projector after the PC has
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started and Windows is running.
Can you plug in a 9 pin cable when the computer is turned on?
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I've never known it damage anything while it's plugged in.
PS/2 & keyboard connects should not be plugged in while the computer is turned on.
USB is designed to be OK to be plugged in while the power is on.
 
TAJ on the link it states a cable with the 15 pin plug so is it referring to the
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older style monitor cables that had the 15 on 1 end and the 9 on the other? I just
hooked my notebook up to an older monitor cable and got it to work just fine by
toggling with the FN, F5.

Do you mean 9 pins in a different configuration than the 15, or 9 pins in the same
general layout as the 15, just with 6 pins missing? If the latter, it should be
ok.
It also states on the link the following which scares me a little…
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then attach the projector after the PC has started and Windows is running.>>
Can you plug in a 9 pin cable when the computer is turned on? I know you can do
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it with the USB’s but I ruined a keyboard years ago by plugging it in with the
computer on. Just don’t want to mess up the notebook.

You were lucky. At one time you could fry some *laptops* -- not just the keyboard
-- by plugging/unplugging PS/2 mice/keyboards while it was running.

I haven't heard of that being a problem lately, and I've never heard of any
problems from connecting/disconnecting external monitor cables while the
computer's alive. Of course, you could always be the first =:-o

So in advance: I accept credit but not blame.


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