Screen on Acer Travelmate 2200

JHolt · 03-28-2008, 09:32 AM

I need help. My Laptop screen is not showing anything when I start the computer. The computer starts, but the screen remains blank. Is there anything that I can do to hook my computer up to a regular monitor or get my monitor to work again. Fans work and CD drive works and everything appears to be working, but the monitor.

~~Computer_Doctor~~ · 03-28-2008, 09:58 AM

Yes, you can hook the laptop to an external monitor. If anything shows up on the external monitor, then the LCD screen on the laptop is bad.

JHolt · 03-28-2008, 09:59 AM

Okay. I can't get it to transfer the screen.

songbird33ca · 03-28-2008, 10:56 AM

does the screen flash when you start it? or is it completely dead?
some other things you can try are:reseating the ram, removing the battery and starting the laptop or try the outside monitor by holding the function (fn) key and tapping the key that has the monitor icon on it

JHolt · 03-28-2008, 11:07 AM

Okay so I got the monitor to work but now in the bios the hard drive is not being read. A message comes up saying
PXE -E61 Media test failure. Check Cable
PXE-M0F Exiting PXE ROM

What does this mean?

**TriggerFinger** · 03-28-2008, 12:36 PM

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Originally Posted by JHolt

Okay so I got the monitor to work but now in the bios the hard drive is not being read. A message comes up saying
PXE -E61 Media test failure. Check Cable
PXE-M0F Exiting PXE ROM

What does this mean?

This looks as if you are doing a network boot. In your BIOS there is the section for Boot Sequence or Boot Order, check that and see if Network boot is on top of the list. Normally you will see Floppy drive, CDROM, HDD, Network; with Network as the last boot device in the list. If your HDD has an operating system installed and it comes before Network in the boot order, then the system should have picked it up and boot from there. The same is true if you have a bootable CD in your CD drive and the CD drive comes before Network.

In your situation it seems the boot order has Network set to be the first boot device. If this is not so, then you may have a malfunctioning hard drive or there is no bootable media in your CD drive or a malfunctioning CD drive.

03-28-2008, 09:32 AM	#1 (permalink)
JHolt Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 3 OS: XP	Screen on Acer Travelmate 2200 I need help. My Laptop screen is not showing anything when I start the computer. The computer starts, but the screen remains blank. Is there anything that I can do to hook my computer up to a regular monitor or get my monitor to work again. Fans work and CD drive works and everything appears to be working, but the monitor.

03-28-2008, 09:58 AM	#2 (permalink)
~~Computer_Doctor~~ Troubled Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 644 OS: Windows XP	Re: Screen on Acer Travelmate 2200 Yes, you can hook the laptop to an external monitor. If anything shows up on the external monitor, then the LCD screen on the laptop is bad.

03-28-2008, 09:59 AM	#3 (permalink)
JHolt Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 3 OS: XP	Re: Screen on Acer Travelmate 2200 Okay. I can't get it to transfer the screen.

03-28-2008, 10:56 AM	#4 (permalink)
songbird33ca Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: northern alberta canada Posts: 5 OS: xp pro	Re: Screen on Acer Travelmate 2200 does the screen flash when you start it? or is it completely dead? some other things you can try are:reseating the ram, removing the battery and starting the laptop or try the outside monitor by holding the function (fn) key and tapping the key that has the monitor icon on it

03-28-2008, 11:07 AM	#5 (permalink)
JHolt Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 3 OS: XP	Re: Screen on Acer Travelmate 2200 Okay so I got the monitor to work but now in the bios the hard drive is not being read. A message comes up saying PXE -E61 Media test failure. Check Cable PXE-M0F Exiting PXE ROM What does this mean? Last edited by JHolt; 03-28-2008 at 11:16 AM.