My girlfriends nephew has brought me his laptop with a broken screen. It was working on a external monitor but he tried to do a system repair or restore? I don’t know which nor does he, now the external connection is not working.
I figured Fn F4 or F8 would switch it but i’m not familiar with these new gateways and windows 8. Fn F4 just seems to shut off the LED backlight F8 nothing. I figured i’d try to help him get it back running on a monitor till they can afford to buy a new screen which I can replace. I would like to see it useable before I suggest buying a screen.
Any suggestions?
Compaq Presario SR2010NX
Athlon X2 6000+ 3.0Ghz
4GB DDR2 800
nVidia 512mb video
Segate 500 gig sata
NEC ND-3500AG DVD R/RW
Linux Mint 14 Cinnamon
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I assume you checked that the external monitor was still working.
It is hard to imagine how repair or restore caused you to not see anything at all on the monitor. Makes me wonder what else went on.
I’m pretty sure it is still doing something as you can keep tapping f2 and the broken screen changes colors and you can move the arrows around and screen changes, you just can’t make anything out. Also pressing the escape key changes the screens colors around. Funny thing I have a HP DV2000 with the same issue but the screen is good on it and it boots up Lubuntu fine. It happens to be Fn F4 also.
I didn’t know if the Internal / External Monitor Toggle were still hardware based?
Most laptops I have ever messed with as long as the mobo and video were good it would always work with an external monitor.
Compaq Presario SR2010NX
Athlon X2 6000+ 3.0Ghz
4GB DDR2 800
nVidia 512mb video
Segate 500 gig sata
NEC ND-3500AG DVD R/RW
Linux Mint 14 Cinnamon
If you mean the BIOS screen then it has to be a hardware fault because Windows isn’t even loaded at that stage. Quite what is causing it is harder to say – display module possibly. If when run normally it doesn’t “sound” as if it’s booting up (whatever that means LOL) then there are many other hardware possibilities.