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jeremy72179 · 05-16-2008, 06:53 PM

my del inspiron b120 running XP (Home, i think) took a little fall and now the screen is displaying all types of craziness and nothing usefull. I can tap the side of the screen and get it to display different garbage so I think that the circuit board on the screen is at fault or one of the connectors up there. Tapping the body of the laptop doesn't change the symptoms at all. I've got some electronics experience and i opened it up and didn't see anything obviously broken or disconnected and I made sure that the monitor connectors were seated tightly. I'm pretty sure its still booting up and everything but not 100% sure (obviously). The laptop has a standard monitor jack on the side but I plugged a monitor in and got nothing so I'm guessing that the jack is disabled somewhere in the software settings.

Is there a way I can make a boot disk that will enable that monitor output jack?

Also, I heard theres a HD enclosure that u can drop your laptop HD into to make it like an external HD, can anyone recommend one compatible w/ a dell 40gb HD out of an inspirion b120?

This laptop was a freebie so I'm not really trying to spend an arm and a leg fixing it, not to mention the fact that it isn't exactly state of the art and top of the line to begin with. Thanks for the help.

05-16-2008, 06:53 PM	#1 (permalink)
jeremy72179 Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 7 OS: xp	Dell inspiron b120 laptop w/ broke screen my del inspiron b120 running XP (Home, i think) took a little fall and now the screen is displaying all types of craziness and nothing usefull. I can tap the side of the screen and get it to display different garbage so I think that the circuit board on the screen is at fault or one of the connectors up there. Tapping the body of the laptop doesn't change the symptoms at all. I've got some electronics experience and i opened it up and didn't see anything obviously broken or disconnected and I made sure that the monitor connectors were seated tightly. I'm pretty sure its still booting up and everything but not 100% sure (obviously). The laptop has a standard monitor jack on the side but I plugged a monitor in and got nothing so I'm guessing that the jack is disabled somewhere in the software settings. Is there a way I can make a boot disk that will enable that monitor output jack? Also, I heard theres a HD enclosure that u can drop your laptop HD into to make it like an external HD, can anyone recommend one compatible w/ a dell 40gb HD out of an inspirion b120? This laptop was a freebie so I'm not really trying to spend an arm and a leg fixing it, not to mention the fact that it isn't exactly state of the art and top of the line to begin with. Thanks for the help.