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Broken laptop to external monitor

Last answer on Oct 22, 2009 11:22:32 am BST jday407, on Mar 30, 2009 2:37:11 am BST 
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Hello,
I am having a problem. My laptop LCD screen broke and I don't have the money to replace it, but what I do have is a extra Monitor. I want to hook my laptop up to this monitor but I can't see what I am doing with the screen broken. I wanted to know if there was any buttons I could press when the computer starts up to make it show up on the external monitor. I have tried pressing Fn + F4 but that didn't work. I have a HP Pavilion dv9000. Please Help.

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xpcman, on Mar 30, 2009 4:47:05 am BST
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You could try Fn + F3 - that combo is used on some laptops to enable the external monitor. Good Luck

   
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Kevin, on Apr 23, 2009 7:04:38 pm BST
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Hey, my friend had the same problem, Fn + F4 opened the external monitor on his hp.

   
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Kev, on Sep 4, 2009 3:17:45 am BST

UHHH same problem ive tried everything can anyone help? im gettin frustrated lmao

   
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ice, on Sep 26, 2009 9:59:31 pm BST

I had the same problem start your laptop and press f8 when it first starts loading then press the option t start it in safe mode. when you get it started in safe mode go into your control panel then int the hadware and click n the device manager click the display adapters an disable the display adapter, then restart your computer annd the external monitor will work.

   
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 rjdeals, on Oct 22, 2009 11:22:32 am BST
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Benn farting around with same problem on a acer 7720 with vista. safe mode and all the fn,s yah can think of still don,t work.
when force booted secondary monitor goes black just when desktop starts and shifts back to broken screen.

   
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