On Oct 10, 3:14*am, "LVTravel" wrote:
"Chris" wrote in message

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Hi -

I need some help please. *The other day, I tried to display the
contents of my Win XP screen to an external monitor. *That was
unsuccessful - worse, I can't retrieve the screen... *the system seems
to boot, but only with a black screen.

I forget the key sequence required - and where I need to do this (I
can't log in, as I am working a bit blind).

Any help, for a silly issue, please?

Many thanks,
Chris

You hold down the Fn key and tap one of the F keys on the top row of the
keyboard. *Which one depends on the laptop. *It will either have the letters
CRT or a small rectangle or similar symbol on it. *After tapping the key one
time wait at least 10 seconds before hitting the key again. *The normal
sequence is something like this: *laptop display only, laptop and external
display together, external display only and then back to laptop display
only, etc.

Let us know if this helps. *If not what is your computer make and model?

Hi LVTravel -

Thanks for your help on this. I tried your suggestions and variations
(i.e. Fn + CTRL, Fn + ALT) for good measure (no luck with the
latter). The best I was able to get was the mouse pointer but still
over a black background. There does seem to be some hard drive
activity when I tried your suggestions.

I'm running a Toshiba Satellite 1130. Any other ideas?

Thanks again for your help.

Chris