A 1 minute 640x480 stretch reversible hardware hack

From the Eeeuser forum, as posted by ziddan -

I was thinking today that perhaps its possible to fool the eee pc into thinking there is an external monitor plugged in.

After a lot googling i found the answer!

People installing OSX on intel laptops have been having problems with it BSODing if an external monitor was not plugged in.

Someone found a dead simple fix for it, i tried it on my eee.

Here is how to get the eee to think a monitor is plugged in:



Ive inserted pieces of a paper clip as per a picture from a mugan on the insanelymac forums.




With this the Eee PC detects a secondary monitor, meaning it can be set to clone mode, thereby 640x480 stretched with the standard driver.

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