T60 External monitor problem
Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 1:03 pm
I have a T60 and I am currently running windows 7. It has an ATI mobility X1400 video card.
Up until about 3 weeks ago, I was easily able to output video on my laptop's VGA port. Over the course of my schooling, I plugged it in many times to projectors to do presentations etc, and I have a set up at home where I switch a VGA cable from my TV to a 22 inch monitor which, conveniently enough support the same resolutions. One time when I switched the cable, from the TV to the monitor, it simply stopped showing any image.
I can confirm that my monitor knows that it is plugged into something sending "a signal" as it is not showing the "no signal message" it is simply showing a black screen. Additionally, my computer can correctly detect the monitor as a Syncmaster and can see the native resolution also. All I get is a black screen in all cases. Things I have tried:
I have tried the basics; l I will be tempted to stab the first person that asks me if I've hit fn f7. I have been using and fixing computers for a long time. I've tried different monitors and TVs, different cables, I have tried various driver configurations, various OS configurations (I've formatted 3 times trying XP with various service packs as well as Windows 7), I have tried every possible combination of booting things up in various orders, I have, of course verified the OS settings because I'm not a tard and I know how to output to an external monitor (As I've mentioned I've done this countless times and it's only stopped working recently, and there were no hardware or software changes prior to the incident). I have tried updated drivers, not updated drivers, and every relevant software configuration of which I could conceive. I have spent countless hours searching the internet, these forums as well as others to no avail.
Most recently I've picked up a dock for my laptop as it has both VGA and DVI outputs. My monitor, being the awesome piece of hardware it is has both VGA and DVI input so today after picking up my dock and trying both cable and ports I run into the same issue.
The monitor knows the computer is there. The computer knows the monitor is there. I'm sure there's some kind of no swearing rules on these forums but believe me the first revision of this post in my head has more cursing than a sailor denied shore leave after 6 months. I cannot believe how arduous and difficult this problem has been. I know you're probably going to say "it's a hardware issue" but I would just like someone who knows the difference between the dvi and vga ports and how the computer talks to them to give me some input. How can it be broken and working at the same FJDAFKLDSAJ;LFKDSA time?
Anyway, this has been quite the novel but I wanted to be sufficiently detailed. Thanks you for taking the time to read this and I sincerely hope that someone can help me as I don't have any more money to spend on this thing at the moment.
Ryan
Up until about 3 weeks ago, I was easily able to output video on my laptop's VGA port. Over the course of my schooling, I plugged it in many times to projectors to do presentations etc, and I have a set up at home where I switch a VGA cable from my TV to a 22 inch monitor which, conveniently enough support the same resolutions. One time when I switched the cable, from the TV to the monitor, it simply stopped showing any image.
I can confirm that my monitor knows that it is plugged into something sending "a signal" as it is not showing the "no signal message" it is simply showing a black screen. Additionally, my computer can correctly detect the monitor as a Syncmaster and can see the native resolution also. All I get is a black screen in all cases. Things I have tried:
I have tried the basics; l I will be tempted to stab the first person that asks me if I've hit fn f7. I have been using and fixing computers for a long time. I've tried different monitors and TVs, different cables, I have tried various driver configurations, various OS configurations (I've formatted 3 times trying XP with various service packs as well as Windows 7), I have tried every possible combination of booting things up in various orders, I have, of course verified the OS settings because I'm not a tard and I know how to output to an external monitor (As I've mentioned I've done this countless times and it's only stopped working recently, and there were no hardware or software changes prior to the incident). I have tried updated drivers, not updated drivers, and every relevant software configuration of which I could conceive. I have spent countless hours searching the internet, these forums as well as others to no avail.
Most recently I've picked up a dock for my laptop as it has both VGA and DVI outputs. My monitor, being the awesome piece of hardware it is has both VGA and DVI input so today after picking up my dock and trying both cable and ports I run into the same issue.
The monitor knows the computer is there. The computer knows the monitor is there. I'm sure there's some kind of no swearing rules on these forums but believe me the first revision of this post in my head has more cursing than a sailor denied shore leave after 6 months. I cannot believe how arduous and difficult this problem has been. I know you're probably going to say "it's a hardware issue" but I would just like someone who knows the difference between the dvi and vga ports and how the computer talks to them to give me some input. How can it be broken and working at the same FJDAFKLDSAJ;LFKDSA time?
Anyway, this has been quite the novel but I wanted to be sufficiently detailed. Thanks you for taking the time to read this and I sincerely hope that someone can help me as I don't have any more money to spend on this thing at the moment.
Ryan
it has been a good time waster, I suppose) and picking up a dock on kijiji for 35 bucks was a great solution! Thanks for your help anyway Harry, I appreciate the good experience on the forums.