If you hold a flashlight on an angle to the screen, can you see anything at all on 
the screen?  If so, you have a backlight problem and there is nothing you can do 
but get it repaired if it's worth it.  If you don't see anything on the screen, then 
the graphics adaptor is bad and the machine is probably junk.

Older machines have to boot up with the LCD display and then if you have a function 
key combo on the keyboard (usually labeled as such) to switch to an external screen, 
you can use that to go to an external monitor.  If you don't have a labeled function 
key access for an external monitor then you have to check the documentation to see 
how you can change it once started.







On Friday, November 9, 2007 at 11:46 am, John Conte wrote:

>I have an old IBM Thinkpad which still has many programs and files I would like 
to 

>use.  I began experiencing problems with the LCD going blank at times so I set the 

>diplay to both LCD and External Monitor.  I had not used it in a while, and when 

>I booted up the laptop today, Windows 98 booted OK, but at the point where the Windows 

>98 Logo and music come on, both the LCD on the Thinkpad and the screen on my external 

>monitor are blank.  Is there any sequence of keystrokes I can use once Windows 98 

>is loaded to access the Control Panel, then Display, and then select dual or external 

>monitor? 

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