Does it work with an external monitor?

 

well i tried to hook up a extra monitor i have laying around but the monitor just says, no video input.

 

Can you atleast go into BIOS setup?

 

thats what ive been trying to do, but no luck

 

After you hooked up the extra monitor did you hit the correct button to switch between monitors on the laptop?

I checked the Dell Latitude I'm working on now and you'd need to hit function + f8 to get the second monitor to work. It might be different on your laptop though...

 

F8 doesnt work for me, but i will try and see if its another key

 

If you cannot see anything in the monitor or LCD, try to remove the HDD and boot from CD drive (pop in a bootable CD... assuming you can boot from CD drive without having to change anything in BOOT sequence).

 

That's the FN(function) and F8 keys at the same time

 

yea, it doesnt work, ive tried on two monitors am i doing something wrong?

 

so since i cant get any lcd to work does that mean somethings wrong with the backlight or inverters?

 

How about trying this...

http://www.techsupportforum.com/f108/blank-screen-350292.html

Honestly I have yet to experience any success with this but there are some reports that say this works. So nothing to lose if you just try it.

 

i just got it to turn on, i turned it on without the charger

then hooked up the charger because it would shut off if not

 

So how did you manage to turn it on? Mind sharing it with us?

 

a magician never tells...

LOL, i just decided to turn it on and it started...im running a system scan with avira, and then try and repair windows, because when it starts it says win32 error, so thats a problem

 

:laugh: Ok I understand. :tongue:

I am happy to know you got it resolved.

 

now the windows CD wont boot, adn everytime i go to the menu to "install windows" the laptop just sits thier trying to load it but never does

 

Oh I thought the screen problem is SOLVED already?

Anyway, I removed the SOLVED mark on this thread again.

If you are installing XP and it seems to just hang, run some checks on your RAM and HDD. Check also your CD drive and the CD being used. Clean the lens of the CD drive (use an optical drive cleaner or can of compressed air). If the CD is dirty or the full of scratches or is just a copy (not genuine/original XP install CD) then that could explain the problems.

 

Hi I seen you are saying the cd wont boot? or is it that it wont open when you click

on the menu, install xp?

Have you tried loading windows from the time you turn on the laptop?

What i would suggest is to boot off of the cd from the time you turn on the laptop.