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Good evening Tom's Hardware

I have a Eurocom computer that is the Clevo W150ER laptop.

I have an issue with the display. The graphics driver is only displaying on an external monitor. But the thing is, I would get it to display on the laptop screen but due to some unknown error to me, when I restart it after a clean install of windows I only get an external display.

This came about by a segate hard drive going bad (or I believe it is going bad). I had to reinstall windows because windows would not see the drive. When I did that, the computer worked fine. I turned the machine off, inserted the drive, and nothing but a black screen (But I heard Windows go to the login screen). Hooked up my external monitor and it works fine.

Do another re-install with bad drive inserted, get windows installed and the laptop display works great. Restart due to drivers, back to original problem of external monitor only.

Pulled drive, re-installed, works fine. Restart, back to square one.

Now I can't even do a fresh install of windows w/o the external monitor.

And I've searched high and low through the bios for ANY graphics settings...nothing.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Inarus
 
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Why don't you try to clone the original hard drive to your replacement. Since you only believe that it's going bad, there should be enough time to clone the drive. You will probably need an external enclosure to put the replacement drive in. If you search for free drive cloning software you should be able to find something. If not you could use windows backup to backup and then restore to the new drive.
 
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A little snippet about this hard drive I failed to include earlier is it's not the main hard drive. The main hard drive is a 120 gig solid state hard drive where I've been installing windows to. A few months ago windows stopped recognizing the D drive and eventually my laptop's display stopped working as well. I've completely wiped the extra hard drive which windows stopped recognizing and even installed windows to my primary drive with and without the second hard drive. I'm beginning to think it's no longer a hard drive issue, but the hard drive issue was just a symptom or manifestation of a much deeper problem somewhere else in the computer.
 
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