Dell Inspiron 8500 Notebook "laptop monitor turning" Questions

...monitor to your laptop and then turn it on and see if anything appears on your monitor. This will let you know that everything else is working on your laptop. If something does appear then turn off ...

...laptop all three locks flash then he numlock and scroll lock turn on and there is nothing happenning on the screen Did you try to use external monitor (plug to the port VGA output) ? if you can see ...

...laptop monitor will refuse to turn on. However, it will come back to life now and then. I can assure you that the problem is neither the Inverter PCB or the backlight/LCD itself. How do I know this, ...

...monitor and laptop is on with white screen please do this. Hold down Fn key then press F8 at the same time. This will toggle the display from the laptop to external monitor. If laptop displays to ...

Laptop monitor? All laptops have function keys to switch the screen between the external monitor (I-INC) and laptop monitor. On your laptop, it is Fn+F8 key. Press them once and wait for 3 seconds, it

Want to turn off laptop monitor and use an external lcd monitor Usually when you plug in that monito the laptop should go blank. If not find setting in BIOS to turn laptop monitor off.

...laptop. Turn on the monitor then the computer. Hopefully Windows will find new hardware and ask you to run the multiple display wizard. If the external display doesn't automatically turn on then you ...

...laptop to an external monitor, whether at your home or a friend's place, and with the laptop off and the external monitor off, connect the monitor video (vga) cable to your laptop. Turn them both on ...

laptop monitor is dark. There was a strange smell and in the corner of the of the screen there was a black area. Then the monitor on the laptop went out. I attached an external monitor and it works. I

...the monitor on and off when lid is opened and closed. Even a driver issue. Can you see a "ghost image" of your desktop in a very bright light? Has the laptop beed jarred, dropped, fallen