I have an old laptop which is 5 years old. About half a year ago, the screen started giving me issues: light green is appearing where large black areas are supposed to be and large pink areas where large white areas are supposed to be. Some pixels are also smeared and "out of focus".
I know it is an old laptop and it is dying. However, buying a cheap external monitor fixed the issues (implying the issue is the graphics card). However, recently, when booting, the screen is black instead of showing login screen. Disabling the graphics card driver (nVidia) in safe mode solved that issue. However, now I cannot output video signal to an external monitor(I don't have the option).
I'm really hoping to extend the life of the laptop until Windows 8 comes out or if by some miracle I can extend it by a year until Haswell intel chip is out.
My question is: can I output the video signal to an external screen without having the graphics card enabled? Are there any "generic" drivers out there which can do this or any other tricks?
I know it is an old laptop and it is dying. However, buying a cheap external monitor fixed the issues (implying the issue is the graphics card). However, recently, when booting, the screen is black instead of showing login screen. Disabling the graphics card driver (nVidia) in safe mode solved that issue. However, now I cannot output video signal to an external monitor(I don't have the option).
I'm really hoping to extend the life of the laptop until Windows 8 comes out or if by some miracle I can extend it by a year until Haswell intel chip is out.
My question is: can I output the video signal to an external screen without having the graphics card enabled? Are there any "generic" drivers out there which can do this or any other tricks?