Monitor Trouble?

[quaxo]

Door stop. 

Some people buy broken laptops on eBay for spare parts too.

[dignifiedant]

you know what tho...i just can't convince myself that it's the video card. Just because of the fact that when I turn the computer on, the screen of the computer has an image on it...it's just not practical to use becuase most of it is cracked...so how is it possible for there to be an image on my laptop screen if the card doesnt work?

[Spoiler]

When you plug a external monitor into your laptop there is a chip that controlls the signal to the monitor. This chip or even the plug can go bad. When you see the image on the laptop the chip that controlls the signal to the external monitor is off.

Lets look at things this way...you have a laptop that has a broken screen and possible burnt chip or some sort of damage for the external monitor. At this point most people would pull there data off on to something like another drive or a CD and get a new machine....

Someplaces like Dell take in tradeins and give you a break on the price.

Right now your machine is slowly failing...save the date before it doesn't boot any more.