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Will A Laptop Post Without An LCD Screen?

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lonelypauly   04-10-2009 at 05:40:36 PM

This one is kind of wacky, but here goes.

I came across a Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop here at work in our IT stash of old ass computers. The LCD screen is missing as in a headless laptop (kind of weird) and cannot be found anywhere. Realizing that the laptop will not POST in this condition, would there be a way to terminate the inverter wire or something and connect an external monitor to get it to POST? (assuming there are no other problems). I have tried the FN + F8 thing with a known good external monitor but there is no signal. I wonder if the primary video signal has to be working in order for secondary video to work. I would hate to just give up on this laptop if I could use it for something as we have loads of desktop monitors around here.

Thanks,
P Mo Mo

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Bronze Laptops badge frozenlead   04-10-2009 at 07:13:22 PM
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There's no reason the notebook shouldn't POST without a monitor attached. Once you attach an external monitor and power the notebook on, the notebook should automatically output to that monitor. I'm thinking you have bigger problems here.

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lonelypauly   04-10-2009 at 10:08:02 PM
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sounds good. i will begin troubleshooting.

Thanks!

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