I've got an age old question, but it's one I never did enough to remember the answer. That, and it's difficult to search. But here goes. (Oh, and thank you all in advance.)
It's the old question, "If you have an external monitor hooked up to a laptop, how do you know if it's working?" No the other screen is Black.
My girlfriend says we had problems with that monitor and cord before, I don't remember.
I "DID" get the computer and monitor to work for a moment. Right around when I first started messing with it. But now I get nothing. (I'll explain "messing with it" in a moment.)
But I don't know if it is the monitor that doesn't work, or if it is the laptop.
The computer has a badly broken screen The screen does come on, but it is impossible to "read" anything.) When I got the computer and monitor to work together successfully once, the picture on the external monitor was clear and crisp, the operating system worked.
The "messing with it" I was speaking with was when I was trying to get the "computer to send the signal to the monitor," and I was pressing a lot of keyboard combinations because of a mistrust in my confidence of the correct combination.
(Do some computers simply detect that there's an external monitor hooked up and automatically switch to it? Or do all computers require a function + key that specifically sends the signal to the external monitor?)
If you know the correct function + key combination, when do you apply it? Can you miss it or not wait long enough? Can you do anything else by hitting random combinations that would stop the computer from being able to use the external monitor?
Hopefully all this helps to illustrate my problem enough for someone to be able to recognize the issue and help me.
I'll do my best to watch the thread carefully so I can participate in my own request for help. And again, thank you to all in advance.
It's the old question, "If you have an external monitor hooked up to a laptop, how do you know if it's working?" No the other screen is Black.
My girlfriend says we had problems with that monitor and cord before, I don't remember.
I "DID" get the computer and monitor to work for a moment. Right around when I first started messing with it. But now I get nothing. (I'll explain "messing with it" in a moment.)
But I don't know if it is the monitor that doesn't work, or if it is the laptop.
The computer has a badly broken screen The screen does come on, but it is impossible to "read" anything.) When I got the computer and monitor to work together successfully once, the picture on the external monitor was clear and crisp, the operating system worked.
The "messing with it" I was speaking with was when I was trying to get the "computer to send the signal to the monitor," and I was pressing a lot of keyboard combinations because of a mistrust in my confidence of the correct combination.
(Do some computers simply detect that there's an external monitor hooked up and automatically switch to it? Or do all computers require a function + key that specifically sends the signal to the external monitor?)
If you know the correct function + key combination, when do you apply it? Can you miss it or not wait long enough? Can you do anything else by hitting random combinations that would stop the computer from being able to use the external monitor?
Hopefully all this helps to illustrate my problem enough for someone to be able to recognize the issue and help me.
I'll do my best to watch the thread carefully so I can participate in my own request for help. And again, thank you to all in advance.
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