[Simply Computers] Re: BLANK SCREEN

 

Hello Bennie,

You said: "I hook
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> it up to a external MODEM..it works great"

Did you perhaps mean an external MONITOR?

If so, laptops can be set to display to either the internal, an external or both.

This is often selected by pressing a couple of keys on the keyboard.

Look carefull at the numbered keys along the top .... see if they also have small icons on them. There should be one that has icons of two monitors.

There should also be a key labeled "Fn" somewhere on the keyboard, maybe down near the bottom left?

Holding down Fn and then pressing the monitor key should cycle between internal, external and both.

You might also look in Setup (you should see a message on bootup what key to press) to see how the laptop video is setup.

Note: laptops with dual monitor functions normally default to displaying to the built-in monitor when only one is present, but who knows?

rogerX

--- In simplycomputers2@yahoogroups.com, "bennie2u" <bennie2u@...> wrote:
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> 2 centavos worth from Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines;
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> I am an American living in the philippines...I have a 2 year old
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> ACER laptop that the screen is totally BLANK upon booting. I hook
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> it up to a external MODEM..it works great, utlizing win7 applications.
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> In one of the times of booting, i was able to push a command of
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> some kind,and all at once i had a dual screen...both on the laptop
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> and the external...what did I do right, or do wrong?
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> Here...in the area, the computer tech's want 180 US Dollars to
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> get me "up and running" with my BUILT in MONITOR. Since the price
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> of computers have fallen, don't want to spent that money....unless
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> i have no other choice.
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> Would appreciate some advice or directions.
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>
> Thanks
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> Bennie living in the Philippines
>

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