Group-1 Classrooms

This section describe how to connect your notebook to the AV system and the Internet in the following classrooms:

Room 1402, 1403, 1505, 2303, 2306, 2405, 2407, 2464, 2503, 4333 & 4334

Showing your notebook video on the venue's video projector

Requirements:

• Your notebook computer must be equipped with an external VGA port.
• Also, you will need a VGA cable for connecting the notebook to the video projection system.

Connection steps:

1. Connect the notebook to video projection system.

   1. Locate the VGA socket under the keyboard drawer of the bench.

   2. Connect the VGA socket to your notebook's external VGA port with your VGA cable.

2. Select notebook as video source on classroom's A/V system.
   1. Switch on AV System Power Switch.
   2. Locate the AV Command Panel (Type A, Type B) on the bench and turn on the video projector by press video projector ON (Type A, Type B).
   3. Switch the video projector source to the notebook by press Notebook or External Computer button.

3. Enable the external video output of your notebook computer.

Connecting your notebook to the Internet

Requirements:

• Your notebook computer needs to be equipped with an ethernet port. Most modern notebook already have one build-in. Your notebook should also be installed with an Internet-ready operating system (e.g. Microsoft Windows, Linux).
• Also you will need a UTP network cable for connecting the notebook to the network. This cable has an connector commonly known as RJ-45 on both ends. A cable about 2-4 meter long should be fine.

Connection steps:

1. Before a notebook can be connected to the Internet, its ethernet address must be registered with our DHCP service. For more information, please refer to Registration of Ethernet Address.

2. Locate the network socket underneath the keyboard drawer of the instructor's bench.
3. Connect the network socket with your UTP network cable to the notebook's ethernet port.

Amplifying your notebook audio in the venue's audio amplifier

Requirements:

• Your notebook computer must be equipped with an an audio output port.
• Also, you will need an audio cable for connecting the notebook to the venue's audio system. One end of the cable for connecting to our AV equipment should be ordinary AV audio connector (i.e. RCA connector). The other end is for plug into the audio out of your notebook computer. In most case it is an headphone connector. Here is an example of these audio cable.

Connection steps:

1. Connect your audio cable to the audio out of your computer and the external input "Audio (L) and Audio (R)" on the bench.

2. To adjust the volume of the notebook on the amplifier, simply adjust the sound volume on your notebook.