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re: Redirect of Laptop LCD to an External Monitor
Thursday, November 15, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ed
(570 messages posted)
From the o/p's previous postings, the external monitor is still working. He can get
it working by using a different computer.
Since he can't get a display on the faulty laptop with either the built in screen
or on his external monitor, which will use different software drivers, he would appear
to have a hardware failure on his motherboard.
This would mean buying and fitting a replacement motherboard. With a laptop, fitting
the replacement is probably a job best left to his local computer repair store.
Ed
On Wednesday, November 14, 2007 at 9:19 am, C K wrote:
>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.
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>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.
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