external monitor

I have a dell inspiron 1720 hooked up to a acer external monitor. When I first hooked up the laptop to the display it worked fine. No problems. I have a nvidia gefore 8600 gt card and I have updated the driver to the windows 7 driver. Well all of a sudden my laptop display stopped coming on. On...

I have a fujitsu-siemens laptop and a new Lcd tv, which i want to connect to, i cannot find a way of setting the laptop for the tv (external monitor), i have an older laptop running xp which the minute i plug into the tv it displays on the screen, however, the vista laptop, will display on a crt...