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Cannot connect laptop to external monitor?

I broke my laptop screen, trying to connect external monitor w/o luck, help!?

  • so, i broke my laptop screen, now i have an external monitor connected to the laptop to run the laptop as the "hard drive". when i boot it up, i can see the background on the new monitor, but no icons or task bar or anything. not even the cursor, which was there the first time i started it. when the cursor was there and i right clicked to check properties or do whatever, nothing happened. ctrl + alt + delete doesnt do anything. is this a problem with the laptop, or is it the fact that the new monitor and the laptop are not "jiving"....any help is appreciated, if its a problem w/ the laptop what can i do? or, if they arent jiving, what can i do to fix this??

  • Answer:

    No need for a new laptop, painless job infact. Change the LCD. Go to www.screentek.com and they have a whole list of compatible laptops that the monitor is for. In order to get it off, is like snapping the plastic food boxes from restaurants: http://www.screentekinc.com/lcd-removal-instructions.shtml. Or, buy the screen from eBay, but as it's not new, I don't now how good it still is.

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Hi, I don't know how to help you with setting up your external monitor, but i did want to tell you to look on eBay for a complete laptop, there are many out there with a perfectly good screen, but just wont boot up, or missing all kinds of other parts, i have seen them for 9 bucks, then you can take it to a local shop and have it swapped out,

supervfive

hate to say it but just go and buy your self a new laptop cumputer

Barbara R

Try connecting a regular mouse and keyboard and see what happens. Depending on how the monitor got broken there may be other damage.

Mike

OK first they are not compatible u better be glad that it did not fry it do us all a favor and go and buy a new laptop and forget this foolishness

S.T.A.R.C.H.I.L.D

you may need to go into the bios and set the external monitor port as the primary monitor, or disable the onboard monitor...good luck

medic391

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