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Black screen when laptop is turned on
My laptop-inspiron 600m first wouldn't go on stand by and then a couple weeks later the screen goes black when I turn on the computer. The dell and windows screens pup up and then that's it so I can't access my computer.
I unplugged the computer the night beforeto watch a movie. Actually, another thing happened here. I have a wire to connect my laptop to my tv and it usually works but this time I couldn't find the option. I know it's in control panel-display-settings-advanced but the option with the 2 screens and the choice to make either the computer or the tv main wasn't there.
This is a lot of information.. I hope it isn't too much :) Does anyone know what I can do? Thanks.
yoonay wrote:
I tried option 1 but nothing happened. This is a laptop so I can't connect another moniter to it. Sorry for confusing you and calling it a computer at times.The laptop has a regular monitor port on the back to plug in any desktop monitor.Publicspeaker
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Posted December 31st, 2006 23:00
2 options:1) try hitting Function + F8 key simultaneously - wait 8 seconds and do again (there are three options that should work with Dell and other Windows based computers, although Dell has the most problems in this area . . . options are computer only, display only, or computer + display).2) there could be a problem with your computer screen - try attaching a different monitor; I had a problem with a Dell Dimension a couple years ago and it was a bad connection in the wires between the keyboard and screen - FYI, Dell sent a service tech out and, which the tech replaced the appropriate components, he put in a BIOS version that was 6 revisions too old!
yoonay
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Posted December 31st, 2006 23:00