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Tom M
Flightless Bird
Hello all,
I have a Dell Inspiron 5100 whose screen is shot. I can shine a
flashlight on it and see the GUI so I know it's the screen and not
something else. Anyway, I don't really care to replace the screen at
this point; I'd rather hook it up to my TV as a monitor.
When I hook the laptop up to my TV via the VGA cord, I am able to
switch to the external monitor using Fn+F5 (I think, I'm not looking
at it right now). However, during boot, the external monitor ONLY
comes on when it gets to the Windows logon screen. It will not show
the POST or BIOS on the external monitor.
I can hit F2 during boot to enter BIOS and then navigate the BIOS by
shining a flashlight on the laptop screen, but I don't see anything
that lets me kind of "switch" the primary display from the laptop
screen to the external monitor.
Is there anyway to switch the entire display -- including POST -- to
the external monitor?
Thanks
Tom
I have a Dell Inspiron 5100 whose screen is shot. I can shine a
flashlight on it and see the GUI so I know it's the screen and not
something else. Anyway, I don't really care to replace the screen at
this point; I'd rather hook it up to my TV as a monitor.
When I hook the laptop up to my TV via the VGA cord, I am able to
switch to the external monitor using Fn+F5 (I think, I'm not looking
at it right now). However, during boot, the external monitor ONLY
comes on when it gets to the Windows logon screen. It will not show
the POST or BIOS on the external monitor.
I can hit F2 during boot to enter BIOS and then navigate the BIOS by
shining a flashlight on the laptop screen, but I don't see anything
that lets me kind of "switch" the primary display from the laptop
screen to the external monitor.
Is there anyway to switch the entire display -- including POST -- to
the external monitor?
Thanks
Tom