Out of curiosity, I disabled VGA (or something like that) on my laptop, and the screen went blank. Please help

VGA stands for Video Graphics Array. On a desktop, you can see the cable that extends from your computer to your monitor. Thats your VGA cable (in most cases, unless you have a really high end graphics card and monitor). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VGA Disabling it is pretty much the same as unplugging the cable. In a laptop, its a little different, but still called VGA. You basically disabled your monitor. The easiest thing to do in your case would be to try an external monitor and see if you get a picture.... If not, try a system restore (if you can figure out how to do that with windows narrator... I never knew that could be useful... Start>All programs>Accessories>System Tools>System Restore. Click next and then confirm you want to do it. You can (and probably should) try this from Safe Mode first, as you're likely to be able to see again in it... Boot and keep tapping F8. You'll be presented with a menu. Press your arrow keys to light up "Safe Mode" and hit enter. If that doesn't work, try booting to another media... www.ubcd4win.com and http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ are two website for this. They both require a copy of your OS on a CD. Following their instructions, you can create a CD that you can boot off of. It will look just like Windows, and you can use it to navigate around, try to fix the settings, or recover data. If you don't have any restore points or you can't manage it, and can't get anything to work in safe mode or off bootable media, see if your laptop came with any recovery CDs/DVDs. If it didn't, phone up the manufacturer and ask for some for your model (and its OS). They cost somewhere between $20-$50, usually. What these do is they reformat your hard drive and reinstall everything to factory settings (including trial software). So, if you're data isn't important, or you have a means of getting it off your computer (such as booting off of your installation/support CD/DVD for your OS) you may want to try this. Hope this helps, email me if you have questions! --John

I agree with you -- the techs are wrong; you're right. When a laptop's screen is disabled, that usually means the external screen is enabled instead. Or you might have told the videocard to go into a video resolution that the LCD display can't handle. 1. Connect an external monitor to your laptop -- the video probably works there fine. 2. Use the combination hotkeys to enable/disable internal/external video (hardware-wise). 3. Use Window's ability to enable/disable internal/external video (software-wise). Look in Display Properties. By playing around with these settings, I believe you can get the video working again. Good luck.

reboot it, try F8, hold it down until you hear the computer beep ing, that means all the buffer for boot are full, and the wait for for safe boot text flashes on your screen, press safe, go into either control panel, display settings, fix it. That doesn't work, do the same all over again, instead of going to display, go to Start, Accessories, System tools, Restore. There is another thing I almost forgot, if you have a spare Screen for a desktop computer, and cable, use that, see if you can boot it with screen on using an outboard screen. Hope that helps