laptop help: My laptop screen stopped working.

dllewis

My laptop screen stopped working.

I plugged it into an external monitor. When I start the laptop I see the windows xp and the check disk screen than it goes gray, after awhile I hear the startup music but no display on the screen.

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SlightlyUnique 6 #
An Undisclosed Location | 2 months, 4 weeks ago (16 minutes after post)

sounds like a glitched graphics driver

start it in safe mode, see if that helps - if it does, download, and install up to date graphics drivers

SlightlyUnique 6 #
An Undisclosed Location | 2 months, 4 weeks ago (17 minutes after post)

oh - it is possible its your graphics card itself that has fried itself - don’t know enough on laptop builds to suggest a fix to that one…

callum.t-po 0 #
An Undisclosed Location | 2 months, 4 weeks ago (29 minutes after post)

sounds like a driver problem or a loose connection on the graphics card but tbh losse connections arnt common (they just normally dont work at all) so im leaning towards a driver problem. but seens you plugged in an external moniter it could be settings, try plugging the external moniter in again if you can

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dllewis 0 #
An Unknown Location | 2 months, 4 weeks ago (58 minutes after post)

How do I start it in safe mode?

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callum.t-po 0 #
An Undisclosed Location | 2 months, 4 weeks ago (1 hour, 3 minutes after post)

tbh after more thought n the subject i think its the settings if you plugged it in to a external moniter. what OS are you using so i can help more?

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dllewis 0 #
An Unknown Location | 2 months, 4 weeks ago (1 hour, 11 minutes after post)

It is Windows XP

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SlightlyUnique 6 #
An Undisclosed Location | 2 months, 4 weeks ago (16 hours, 57 minutes after post)

dllewis wrote:
How do I start it in safe mode?

repeatedly tap F8 on the keyboard when you are booting, and select safe mode from the screen that comes up

dllewis 0 #
An Unknown Location | 2 months, 4 weeks ago (21 hours, 45 minutes after post)

Tried it. I did not get the option to start in safe mode. As soon as the Windows XP screen came up the check disk screen came up. When it said to press any key to skip I pressed several keys but it did not skip. Makes me think it is not recognizing the keyboard for some reason.

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SlightlyUnique 6 #
An Undisclosed Location | 2 months, 4 weeks ago (22 hours, 10 minutes after post)

F8 is pressed repeatedly RIGHT at the start, literally as you turn the power on…

Are they any other problems with keyboard/mouse recognition?

callum.t-po 0 #
An Undisclosed Location | 2 months, 4 weeks ago (23 hours, 41 minutes after post)

dllewis wrote:
It is Windows XP

well have you tryed plugging the moniter back in??? tbh i think its just the settings
i did it the first time i plugged a external moniter in i just kept clicking like a usialy do click first **** bricks and sort problem later

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dllewis 0 #
An Unknown Location | 2 months, 4 weeks ago (23 hours, 52 minutes after post)

It is plugged into the external monitor. The laptop screen is disconnected. I have no way to get to my settings so I guess I will just have to have someone pull the info off the hard drive and get a different laptop.
Thank you both for trying to help me.

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callum.t-po 0 #
An Undisclosed Location | 2 months, 4 weeks ago (23 hours, 59 minutes after post)

i dont know if that will work. wave you tryed plugging it back into the screen ie diconnecting the external?>

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dllewis 0 #
An Unknown Location | 2 months, 4 weeks ago (1 day after post)

the screen gives me nothing but stripes - it looks like a bar code.

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callum.t-po 0 #
An Undisclosed Location | 2 months, 4 weeks ago (1 day after post)

hmmmmmmm could be more serious that i thought you say it worked with an extrnal moniter???

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dllewis 0 #
An Unknown Location | 2 months, 4 weeks ago (1 day after post)

the only thing I could see on the external monitor was the Windows XP sreen and the check disk screen. After that nothing.

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dllewis 0 #
An Unknown Location | 2 months, 3 weeks ago (3 days after post)

Finally was able to start it in safe mode. However, I cannot get it to connect to the internet to be able to check for drivers.

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callum.t-po 0 #
An Undisclosed Location | 2 months, 3 weeks ago (3 days, 7 hours after post)

select safe mode with networking (safemod dissables things that dont have to be run and the internet is dissabled) but if you boot in to safe mode with networking it should work

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SlightlyUnique 6 #
An Undisclosed Location | 2 months, 3 weeks ago (4 days, 16 hours after post)

dllewis wrote:
Finally was able to start it in safe mode. However, I cannot get it to connect to the internet to be able to check for drivers.

did it boot correctly, and you can see the screen then? :)

if so, do this

callum.t-po wrote:
select safe mode with networking (safemod dissables things that dont have to be run and the internet is dissabled) but if you boot in to safe mode with networking it should work

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