Ressarecting the dead

corragh · 10-26-2007, 06:36 PM

I have a Dell 5150 full load for its day, laptop with a new and formatted hard drive . Unfortunatelly its LCD is dead......I thought that I would just plug in a working external monitor so that I could load XP Pro into it and carry on from there... but I am receiving no signal to the external monitor.

jnoosh · 10-28-2007, 02:50 PM

perhaps the graphics card is screwed, not the LCD? :)

Wisey! · 10-28-2007, 03:29 PM

Erm, not sure how to get around it, but when I plug in an external monitor to my Laptop, it does not show any singal until you activate it under the graphics card/Windows options. But of course you can't get to these without having a working default screen.

Or, like jnoosh says, you graphics card could be shagged.

10-26-2007, 06:36 PM	#1 (permalink)
corragh Registered User Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 1 OS: xp pro	Ressarecting the dead I have a Dell 5150 full load for its day, laptop with a new and formatted hard drive . Unfortunatelly its LCD is dead......I thought that I would just plug in a working external monitor so that I could load XP Pro into it and carry on from there... but I am receiving no signal to the external monitor.

10-28-2007, 02:50 PM	#2 (permalink)
jnoosh Registered User Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Mid-Wales Posts: 79 OS: XP	Re: Ressarecting the dead perhaps the graphics card is screwed, not the LCD? :)

10-28-2007, 03:29 PM	#3 (permalink)
Wisey! Registered User Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: England Posts: 86 OS: Windows Vista Home Edition My System	Re: Ressarecting the dead Erm, not sure how to get around it, but when I plug in an external monitor to my Laptop, it does not show any singal until you activate it under the graphics card/Windows options. But of course you can't get to these without having a working default screen. Or, like jnoosh says, you graphics card could be shagged.