[ale] [OT] need help xp internal mon broken, ext mon inop
Ron Frazier (ALE)
atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com
Wed Mar 20 22:11:10 EDT 2013
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.
I went into the bios and set the display to activate the external port
and lcd panel.
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.
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.
Sincerely,
Ron
On 3/20/2013 8:34 PM, Greg Clifton wrote:
> Ron,
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
>
> 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.
>
> Maybe a serial console, but probably that would have needed to have
> been configured beforehand?
>
> Best,
> Greg
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE)
> <atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com
> <mailto:atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ron
>
>
>
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