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Old 05-23-2012, 10:41 PM   #1
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Question Hooking A Monitor To A Laptop?

Possible?

I figure it is, gotta badly cracked screen, but the 'puter is fine.
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Should be a VGA port out the back... "should be", not sure what you have, but every one I've ever owned does. You might have to push a key or two on the keyboard to turn it on.
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should work, just hook it up. I've had several laptops that have had the monitor/backlight/entire screen go out but display a perfect image when hooked up to an external monitor.
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Old 05-23-2012, 11:11 PM   #4
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the button or two will be the function key and often times f4 or f5.

what you are looking for in most cases is a key with "a little screen with brackets around it". Hit it in conjunction with the "Function" key and usually that sends the output to the connected monitor.
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Great, thanks guys.
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