no display on laptop

[cadi1936]

i have a laptop that appears to boot but has no display
does anybody know how to hook a monitor to it ,with no display.cannot get in to see bios

 

[vacunita]

If there's a VGA port o+F5n the back just plug the monitor in, and you should get video, if not, you can try a FN key and F key combination such as FN+F5

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[cadi1936]

i had already tried that i thought there might be an external way to do it without going into bios thanks for the reply

 

[vacunita]

Who said anything about going into BIOS.

Just plug the monitor in and use the Keyboard to change the output of the screen to the other monitor.

Usually laptops have a key combination Fn(function key) plus one of the F keys above (f1-f12) The one with the little screen/monitor is the one you want, usually F5.

With the computer on, and the external monitor plugged into the VGA port, press Fn+F5 or whatever the key with the little monitor is. At no time do you need to go into BIOS to do anything.



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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.