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PS - I'd have no earthly idea how to do this on Linux dealing with the
X system.<br>
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Ron<br>
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On 3/20/2013 10:11 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
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YES. I want to thank you all for your suggestions. Sometimes, just
talking things through is helpful. I think I've got it back now.<br>
<br>
I went into the bios and set the display to activate the external port
and lcd panel.<br>
<br>
I went into safe mode. I could then see the display. I restored a
system restore point to yesterday. I went into device manager and
disabled the internal panel. I rebooted and I could see the screen,
but it was the wrong resolution. This may be due to the kvm. I went
into advanced settings and told the system not to hide modes the
monitor couldn't display. I was then able to set it to 1280 x 1024
(normal for this pc). I went back into device manager and disabled a
2nd pnp monitor that it thinks is attached. I have no idea what it is,
perhaps a port on the internal video controller that doesn't have an
external port. I think I'm back up and running now. I still have to
reinstall the patches, etc., this time with the monitor attached.<br>
<br>
Thanks for the suggestions guys. I just needed that little extra
outside perspective to kickstart my brain. Had this not worked, I was
prepared to try more radical measures that you had suggested.<br>
<br>
Sincerely,<br>
<br>
Ron<br>
<br>
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On 3/20/2013 8:34 PM, Greg Clifton wrote:
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<div dir="ltr">Ron,
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<div style="">Well, if you have the disc and the license code, you
can always re-install (guaranteed cure for all Windows problems ;-) But
then that will probably want to use the primary display so probably
won't work. But, if you had a current backup you might
try restoring that. </div>
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<div style="">If you see the BIOS screen, you should be able to go
into the BIOS and set it to boot from a CD or USB stick so maybe UBCD4W
would help?</div>
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<div style="">Now if you had a delay set for how long the computer
waits to actually start loading Windows, you might be able to catch it
and go into safe mode and MAYBE you'd get your external monitor back in
safe mode, but I doubt it. If that did work and you knew which setting
to change, which I don't off the top of my head. The external monitor
was probably auto-disabled when the system booted and didn't find it.</div>
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<div style="">Maybe a serial console, but probably that would have
needed to have been configured beforehand?</div>
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<div style="">Best,</div>
<div style="">Greg</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Ron
Frazier
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style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi
all,<br>
<br>
Please don't flame me, but I need XP help. I KNOW it's getting
obsolete (per other threads), but there's something cool about keeping
a vintage computer running as long as I can. You guys are the geekiest
people I know and I don't hang out on Windows forums.<br>
<br>
I have a vintage 2002 laptop. It's still very capable. 2.4 ghz cpu, 1
GB ram, 320 GB hdd. The laptop hinges broke and the internal monitor
is non functional, but the OS THINKS it's functional. For years, I've
been running on an external monitor via a kvm along with other pc's.
Through a series of unfortunate events, including rebooting with the
kvm switched to another pc, as far as I can tell, the system now thinks
the external monitor is both the extended desktop and is deactivated.<br>
<br>
So, when I boot the PC, I see the bios requesting my password ON THE
EXTERNAL monitor, so I know the monitor and vga port works. I enter
it. I see the boot menu on my external monitor. I select Windows XP.
The monitor goes blank and never returns. I can only assume that the
windows login screen is showing up in the internal monitor (as far as
the OS is concerned), but I cannot see that. I know the OS is running,
because I can press the power button briefly and, after 5 seconds or
so, the system shuts down.<br>
<br>
I've tried the function button on the keyboard to switch from internal
to external monitor. That does no good. I tried the VGA mode boot
option from the boot menu, and that worked. Operating in 640 x 480
mode is REALLY fun, not. However, when I do a normal mode boot, it
stays blank again.<br>
<br>
Does anyone know how I can force the system back into mirror monitor
mode, or better yet, permanently disable the internal monitor? Even if
I have to boot Ubuntu and mess with files, etc., that would be OK.<br>
<br>
It won't kill me if I can't get this back, since I can boot Ubuntu and
get to the files. I just didn't want to retire the unit just yet.<br>
<br>
Any help is greatly appreciated.<br>
<br>
Sincerely,<br>
<br>
Ron<br>
<br>
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