Could a bad motherboard cause a laptops display to quit workirng?

ALowe336

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I have a laptop that my cousin stepped on, and the display quit working (in large part because its cracked). I have replaced the display and it still does not work. So I thought it must be a bad part (I get bad parts all the time on eBay), so I ordered a replacement, still doesn't even light up.

So I tried other testing: I plugged a 15.6" lcd in (the original was 17.1", but I tried the Lcd from my laptop) and it was solid white (at least it lit up). So some signal is coming from the motherboard. I also plugged in a monitor and tv to the vga and hdmi ports on the laptop, and it supports an external display fine. I tested the brand new displays on another computer to see if I may have gotten 2 bad parts, but they came on, but with a fuzzy picture and a pink tint. I have also replaced the cable that connects the internal display to the motherboard, and the results are still the same.

My question is, is it possible that this motherboard is damaged and just won't support an internal display? The computer runs perfect when hooked up to an external display, but I have not been able to get any internal display to work. What makes the matter more confusing is the brand new lcd screens won't turn on or light up at all when connected to this motherboard, but other displays (a known working display from my laptop, and an old broken lcd screen I had in the closet) both light up solid white.

I asked this same question about a month ago and nobody responded, but that was before I had tried a 2nd brand new lcd screen and replacing the cable that connects the motherboard to the display.
 
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yes but it is pretty unlikely the GPU part of the processor was damaged an the rest was fine. The only way that could happen would have been a surge when the monitor broke, which would mean the graphics part of the board is cooked too.

Supahos

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yes a bad board could cause that. Its likely when it was stepped on that it broke the plug on the board for the internal display, or when it cracked it sent a surge into it and fried the same part. I know this isn't what you want to do but do they make a onboard to VGA adapter and you could run it as an external display and still have it work like a laptop with a cord coming out of it?
 

ALowe336

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I don't know if they make those. Another problem I forgot to mention, is the external display only comes on when Ubuntu splash screen shows up, so I cannot access BIOS at all. But do you think it's possible that it could be the processor? I only wonder that because I know that the Core i3 i5 and i7 have the graphics support on the processor, and I was just wondering if you or anyone else knows if a bad processor could cause this as well....

And what about other screens showing up solid white, but the new screens not doing anything? Does that make any since if its the motherboard?
 

Supahos

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yes but it is pretty unlikely the GPU part of the processor was damaged an the rest was fine. The only way that could happen would have been a surge when the monitor broke, which would mean the graphics part of the board is cooked too.
 
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