<div dir="ltr">If you keep lid closed would it default to external monitor? I have broken Toshiba although PIII old that does exactly that.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 11:50 PM Greg Clifton via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:x-small">If you can get into the BIOS (and see what you're doing there), look for a setting for dual monitor output or a preference for an external display over the built in display. If you can get to it, that should fix the problem.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 11:30 PM, Alex Carver via Ale <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I don't know what Toshiba's setup screen looks like but I seem to recall<br>
it had a setting for mirroring the display. Alternatively if you can<br>
get Windows up to get to the external screen you might be able to use a<br>
Toshiba setup utility from there to change the boot-time parameters so<br>
that it will boot to the external screen.<br>
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On 2018-08-12 20:17, Beddingfield, Allen via Ale wrote:<br>
> I can hit f2 to get into setup, to verify some output is going to the<br>
> broken LCD. FN-F4 is supposed to switch to the external video, but it<br>
> does nothing here.. I've hit FN-F4, F4, ALT-F4, CTRL-F4, and no output<br>
> to VGA.<br>
> <br>
> This is a Toshiba Satellite L875-S7208, BTW.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> On 8/12/18 10:12 PM, Alex Carver via Ale wrote:<br>
>> You should be able to switch the video at boot before the OS. I've had<br>
>> three laptops that all showed boot screens on external monitors.<br>
>> Usually it takes flipping the output using the Fn key and one of the<br>
>> upper row function keys during that period to make it switch.<br>
>><br>
>> The signals on the cable to the LCD panel are not usually one of the<br>
>> common formats. It's typically something only the LCD driver itself<br>
>> will understand so finding an adapter is not likely.<br>
>><br>
>> On 2018-08-12 19:45, Beddingfield, Allen via Ale wrote:<br>
>>> One of my co-workers gave me a laptop that his wife dropped and broke<br>
>>> the display, and the entire assembly off the back (LCD is broken, rear<br>
>>> cover busted, hinge broken free from it, etc..). The laptop body itself<br>
>>> is fine. I got on EBay and discovered that the entire display assembly<br>
>>> is going to be about $150 to replace - not worth it. So, I had another<br>
>>> idea: Open it up, remove the hinges, unplug the video/camera cable, and<br>
>>> remove the wireless cables. My plan was to just plug in a monitor to<br>
>>> the vga output, and use it for a computer, somewhat looking like an 80s<br>
>>> console without the TV. I tried that, but got no video output. So.. I<br>
>>> plugged in the broken video cable, and attached it to the broken LCD<br>
>>> panel. I was able to see enough of the output to see that the PC is<br>
>>> booting up. It looks like the switch to the external output is done in<br>
>>> software AFTER Windows comes up. So much for my idea of a small Linux<br>
>>> machine.<br>
>>> I'm wondering now if there is some sort of an adapter in existence that<br>
>>> I can plug the video cable that goes into the back of the LCD panel to,<br>
>>> and get VGA, DVI, HDMI, or some sort of useful output to connect a<br>
>>> monitor to?<br>
>>><br>
>>> Any ideas, anyone?<br>
>>><br>
>>> Thanks.<br>
>>> Allen B.<br>
>>><br>
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