Laptop with broken screen - how to attach it to other screen?

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Wouter

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A friend of mine has given me 2 of his laptops. His partner managed to destroy them both. The one I'm looking at now has the screen broken, looks like it fell on the ground or bumped into something very hard, only the top left of the screen is readable, and the rest is black and white or weird-colored stripes and dots. You can actually see the cracks in the screen... so sad. And the CD-Rom drive doesn't want to pop out anymore, which is very annoying.

Anyone know if you can hook the laptop up to another screen (e.g. my 19'' CRT monitor) and use that? Anyone have advice as to what I can still do with the laptop? For the rest it works fine, only the screen needs a replacement very very much!!

Thanks,


Wouter
 
Yes providing the laptop isn't ridiculously old, there should be a port somewhere which is a DB style VGA one, a CRT (or TFT if it has the connection) monitor can plug into it as it would into a normal PC. Then you'll need to know the key combination to switch video output to LCD, CRT or both outputs.

On mine, the key is Fn (function key next to alt) and F5, which happens to have a small picture of 2 displays on it. Yours will be probably be different but the Fn + F-combination should work. Press the keys to cycle through display options until you get a display on the CRT.
 
Hi, thanks! There actually was a CRT port on the laptop, and I didn't have to press anything to get it to work. Sweet, the most annoying problem gone. Find a cheap screen for it, fix the DVD-Rom drive, and I'm set ^^
 
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