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No display on Dell E6510 Led display, hook up external monitor and system comes up properly. I shine a bright light on laptop display and can see a very dim display on the screen. Is this a backlight issue, not sure if this exists on a led display. Any idea on troubleshooting this issue?

Hello all, I apologise for the length of this first post but I want to give as much information as I can. Whilst I would never call myself a nerd I have what I would assess as maybe being an enthusiastic amateur knowledge and experience with computers. This afternoon I wanted to move my...

I have an HDMI cable connected to my HD TV, input 3. I have a Win 8.1 laptop (Lenovo 11s) that I can connect to the HDMI cable and the laptop will show it's display on the TV. BUT, I have a second Win 8 laptop (Asus UX303LA) that will not show it's display on the TV. I have tried all options...

The screen on my Windows 8.1 laptop is broken, so I connected my old monitor to it to use instead. I tried to set the correct resolution by right clicking on the desktop and selecting "Screen resolution", but none of the options listed there are correct. Is there a way to manually type which...

im 16 and normally i can fix everyones pc probs there having...well this time my friend brought me his laptop (toshiba satellite L655 win7 home premium) and when i push the power button to turn it on only the power supply, hardrive, and fan come on...no processor activity at all... no boot...

First post, first problem. Running a TV as a second screen off my laptop via HDMI connection. Old TV gave in, bought a new standard 22" screen. When connecting to the screen, it automatically assigns it to the right of my PC, however I need it positioned on the left. I have gone into control...

Hi, So, I'm currently running a laptop hooked up to an extra monitor, using them as separate screens. Basically job involves reading a lot of text on one screen, then writing key info into the other screen. I want to do this without having to continuously flick the mouse across the 2 screens...

After the 8.1 windows update that happened last week, my control panel is gone for Nvidia, card works properly but I cant not see the settings, when I try to open it says " You are currently using a display attached to an Nvidia GPU , settings are not available. I am using an external monitor...

Win 7 Pro x64 NVIDIA Quadro K1000M For the six months that I've owned this Lenovo W530, it's worked this way: I bring it home, put it in the dock (closed), and I use my external keyboard and display. Yesterday, for no reason I know of, I couldn't get any video signal to the monitor. In an...

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I've been trying to track the cause of this BSOD down for a few months now. I've updated all the drivers, scanned drives and memory for errors, but nothing seems to point in a useful direction. I work on a laptop connected to an external screen for a dual display setup. This is the same with...

Hi everybody i need help with Windows 8 screen settings. Okay so i have 1 laptop with 2 external screens, the screens are working well but... I what my laptop screen duplicate with 1 of the external screens and the other screen just to be expand It's that possible to do?

I have been getting a BSOD every couple days. The error is a system_service_exception with stop code 3b. (STOP: 0x0000003b (0x00000000C0000005, 0xFFFFF9600010D010, 0XFFFFF88E011B40, 0x000000000000) To explain further, I have had this exact same error on TWO different computers, one of them...

Hi, I have an HP pavilion entertainment PC (hp pavilion dv4). Well my lap top needed and update one day and i pressed okay but the problem is that once it shutdown it would not even turn on. I mean the laptop would turn on but not the screen I tried doing the power option meaning i held the...

I originally had to send in my laptop to get the hard drive replaced as it was failing when it came back i had to re-install windows. after re-installing I restored from my back up, the back up was the entire c drive any way when i try to play any game i can hits as low as 2 fps this does not...

Hi everyone! Now here is my problem: first of all I checked as many "black screen of death" threads as I could during these past few days. There seems to be many different versions and solutions for this but none of them worked for me so here I am. Now when I start my laptop, everything goes...

Hi, I'm using a laptop (Compaq 6910p using Intel Express 965 chipset graphics) and connecting a Samsung 1080p tv as an external display. Using Output to projector only (Win-P) I have been able to run the external Samsung TV at it's native 1080p (1920x1080) resolution. However since...

Hi Forum! I have a HP Pavilion dm1z laptop. The laptop has a HDMI port. I am trying to connect it to my Samsung BX2335 display. The display has the DVI dual link port only. So I bought a HDMI - DVI adapter. I have Win7 x64 on my laptop. When I start the laptop with the external display...

Hi All, Sorry if there's a similar thread on here and also sorry for such a noob question. I have a laptop on my network, it's monitor is messed up so I can't really see the screen. Fuzzy lines etc. My question is basically, there are files on the laptop I need to get off, how can I access the...

I just upgraded to Win 7 HP 64 and know nothing....yet. Previously my external monitor (SyncMaster 203B) 16/32 bit connected no problem with the full display showing (previous OS Vista HP 32 bit). Now...a 2" in. black border surrounds the window. Samsungs Auto-Adjust made no improvment. Samsungs...