[olug] OT: Crispy Windows Laptop

[cwhite99 at charter.net]

Just a thought, have you checked the function keys atop the laptop's keyboard for a video selection key?  Usually, hold the "Fn" key to enable their use.  My boss' laptop wouldn't boot properly, or so it seemed, similar symptoms, etc.  He'd inadvertently switched it to external mode only.  Switching it back to LCD only fixed it immediately.


---- Dave Thacker <dthacker9 at cox.net> wrote: 
> I've been asked to look at a windows laptop that "wouldn't boot".  So far I've 
> determined that it won't start it's own display, but if you hook up a monitor 
> to it, both the monitor and the laptop display work.  I can boot to a Trinity 
> Rescue CD and see the windows drive.  Any ideas on what could be causing the 
> local laptop display to behave like that?  I'll go run a virus scan while I 
> wait for replies.....  :)
> 
> TIA, Dave
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