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Lessons Learned - No Display
just thought I would share
this lesson learned, in case the question came up in the future. out of the clear blue my laptop had no display upon power up. seemingly I thought that it was the backlighting because the acer logo was very faint. I connected an external monitor to it, and visually regain the desktop. however, upon rebooting I noticed that I was not seeing the memory tests anymore. so I entered the bios to disable the silent boot. then I found a setting for the display which was set to "auto". so I figured what the heck and set it to "both" and viola, the primary display became functional again. it is odd that this occurred. and I was ready to buy a new laptop, since replacing the backlighting was going to cost as much as a new laptop. but fortunately it was only a bios setting. perhaps, its time for a new cmos battery. so if there are postings in the future regarding no display, perhaps, its best not to rule out using an external monitor and double checking the bios. without an external monitor, there is no way for anyone to view the bios settings. incidentally, it should be noted that getting the laptop repaired would be at least 219.00 in addition to parts and labor. imagine paying a few hundred dollars for a technician secretly resetting a bios adjustment. -- db·´¯`·...¸)))º DatabaseBen, Retired Professional - Systems Analyst - Database Developer - Accountancy - Veteran of the Armed Forces - Microsoft Partner - @hotmail.com ~~~~~~~~~~"share the nirvana" - dbZen |
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Lessons Learned - No Display
Something I ran into when I first tried my digital output from my
analog/digital output video card. I have the normal onboard bios, a Promise add-on ide card bios, and an Adaptec scsi card bios that normally are visible with the analog after turnon. With the digital, the onboard bios routine is visible. Blank screen when the other 2 bios run. Went back to analog as some pertinent message from the other 2 bios may appear, and I would never know. -- Dave "db" databaseben at hotmail dot com wrote in message ... just thought I would share this lesson learned, in case the question came up in the future. out of the clear blue my laptop had no display upon power up. seemingly I thought that it was the backlighting because the acer logo was very faint. I connected an external monitor to it, and visually regain the desktop. however, upon rebooting I noticed that I was not seeing the memory tests anymore. so I entered the bios to disable the silent boot. then I found a setting for the display which was set to "auto". so I figured what the heck and set it to "both" and viola, the primary display became functional again. it is odd that this occurred. and I was ready to buy a new laptop, since replacing the backlighting was going to cost as much as a new laptop. but fortunately it was only a bios setting. perhaps, its time for a new cmos battery. so if there are postings in the future regarding no display, perhaps, its best not to rule out using an external monitor and double checking the bios. without an external monitor, there is no way for anyone to view the bios settings. incidentally, it should be noted that getting the laptop repaired would be at least 219.00 in addition to parts and labor. imagine paying a few hundred dollars for a technician secretly resetting a bios adjustment. -- db·´¯`·...¸)))º DatabaseBen, Retired Professional - Systems Analyst - Database Developer - Accountancy - Veteran of the Armed Forces - Microsoft Partner - @hotmail.com ~~~~~~~~~~"share the nirvana" - dbZen |
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Lessons Learned - No Display
Something I ran into when I first tried my digital output from my
analog/digital output video card. I have the normal onboard bios, a Promise add-on ide card bios, and an Adaptec scsi card bios that normally are visible with the analog after turnon. With the digital, the onboard bios routine is visible. Blank screen when the other 2 bios run. Went back to analog as some pertinent message from the other 2 bios may appear, and I would never know. -- Dave "db" databaseben at hotmail dot com wrote in message ... just thought I would share this lesson learned, in case the question came up in the future. out of the clear blue my laptop had no display upon power up. seemingly I thought that it was the backlighting because the acer logo was very faint. I connected an external monitor to it, and visually regain the desktop. however, upon rebooting I noticed that I was not seeing the memory tests anymore. so I entered the bios to disable the silent boot. then I found a setting for the display which was set to "auto". so I figured what the heck and set it to "both" and viola, the primary display became functional again. it is odd that this occurred. and I was ready to buy a new laptop, since replacing the backlighting was going to cost as much as a new laptop. but fortunately it was only a bios setting. perhaps, its time for a new cmos battery. so if there are postings in the future regarding no display, perhaps, its best not to rule out using an external monitor and double checking the bios. without an external monitor, there is no way for anyone to view the bios settings. incidentally, it should be noted that getting the laptop repaired would be at least 219.00 in addition to parts and labor. imagine paying a few hundred dollars for a technician secretly resetting a bios adjustment. -- db·´¯`·...¸)))º DatabaseBen, Retired Professional - Systems Analyst - Database Developer - Accountancy - Veteran of the Armed Forces - Microsoft Partner - @hotmail.com ~~~~~~~~~~"share the nirvana" - dbZen |
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