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    Urgent help please: Laptop display gone after new external monitor

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by lh0628, Dec 21, 2007.

  1. lh0628

    lh0628 Notebook Geek

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    I bought a Samsung 226BW montior and hooked it up to my A8Js. Everything was fine, the 226BW was just a clone of my laptop display. Then I did something that I can't remember, now my laptop display is just black, my 226BW display is fine.

    The laptop is black in Windows, and on reboot, it looks like a bar code with white and color strips vertically across the screen. Once Windows loads, the laptop display goes black.

    My resolution is set to 1680x1050 right now, and my laptop display should be 1440x900.

    Can someone help me getting my laptop display back :confused:
     
    lh0628, Dec 21, 2007
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  2. somber

    somber Notebook Enthusiast

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    well the easiest way to fix that is to run windows in "emergency mode" F8 key ;] and from device manager remove/uninstall video card, then reset and run it in "normall mode" and install drivers again ;]
     
    somber, Dec 21, 2007
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    D3R3K Notebook Geek

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    Try pressing FN F8 many times... usually u will be able to toggle btw screens, like both displays on, 1 display on 1 display off, etc...

    I don't think u need to reinstall any drivers unless u uninstalled it ...
     
    D3R3K, Dec 21, 2007
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  4. lh0628

    lh0628 Notebook Geek

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    Thank you for the replies.

    But does nVidia driver control BIOS and Windows boot screens? I thought video drivers only comes on AFTER Windows' loaded.

    And I tried Fn+F8, LCD only/LCD+DVI/... none of them works.
     
    lh0628, Dec 21, 2007
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    Mr.Pigeon Notebook Evangelist

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    I had the same problem with ATI's Catalyst Control Center on my W3J. CCC seemed to disable the Fn+F8 shortcut to toggle display modes. After an uninstall everything worked fine. Does nVidia have similar software ?
     
    Mr.Pigeon, Dec 21, 2007
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  6. lh0628

    lh0628 Notebook Geek

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    That I'm not sure. But my Fn+F8 function appears to be working...

    When I hit Fn+F8, I can see the 'LCD Only' / 'LCD + DVI' / etc icon on the top left screen. So I'm assuming it works.
     
    lh0628, Dec 21, 2007
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    Mr.Pigeon Notebook Evangelist

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    Did you check your display settings ? The 226BW should show up as a greyed-out (inactive) monitor. Make sure that secondary monitor is disabled (ie. not "Attached").
     
    Mr.Pigeon, Dec 21, 2007
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    lh0628 Notebook Geek

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    I'll check when I get home tonight and make a few screenshots.

    Thank you.
     
    lh0628, Dec 21, 2007
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    lh0628 Notebook Geek

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    I tried uninstall and reinstall my video card driver, didn't work.

    This is how my settings look like:

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    Can someone please help? Thank you.
     
    lh0628, Dec 21, 2007
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