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    My Primary monitor accidentially disabled, how do you enable it.

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by tasty_chicken, Oct 2, 2007.

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    tasty_chicken Notebook Consultant

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    Hey guys, I'm using vista and i accidentally disabled my primary plug and play monitor on my notebook and now my primary monitor doesn't work. A external monitor doesn't work either because i disabled TMM, to enable it i would have to go to display properties which i can't even see. Right now i'm in safe mode trying to enable that driver. Anybody know how i can fix this?
     
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    Fn-F8 Fn-F8 is for external alone... It needs to be on the laptop keypad.
     
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    yeah that doesn't work either. i forgot to mention that.
     
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    Restart the system, then try again. There is no way it shouldnt work...

    QAnd if that doesnt work...

    rt click on desktop/personalize/display settings and reenable your external.
     
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    yeah the fn-f8 doesn't work. Actually on my notebook its fn-f7, however because i did a clean install, the quick change of monitor never worked.

    Good news is i got my monitor back. It seemed like when i disabled the primary monitor, it just turned off the backlight, so under certain lighting conditions i was able to barely see the screen and i was able to enable the monitor again.

    thanks flamenko, i'll rep you for trying to help.
     
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