[ale] [OT] need help xp internal mon broken, ext mon inop
Ron Frazier (ALE)
atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com
Wed Mar 20 22:33:28 EDT 2013
PS - I'd have no earthly idea how to do this on Linux dealing with the X
system.
Ron
On 3/20/2013 10:11 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
> YES. I want to thank you all for your suggestions. Sometimes, just
> talking things through is helpful. I think I've got it back now.
>
> I went into the bios and set the display to activate the external port
> and lcd panel.
>
> I went into safe mode. I could then see the display. I restored a
> system restore point to yesterday. I went into device manager and
> disabled the internal panel. I rebooted and I could see the screen,
> but it was the wrong resolution. This may be due to the kvm. I went
> into advanced settings and told the system not to hide modes the
> monitor couldn't display. I was then able to set it to 1280 x 1024
> (normal for this pc). I went back into device manager and disabled a
> 2nd pnp monitor that it thinks is attached. I have no idea what it
> is, perhaps a port on the internal video controller that doesn't have
> an external port. I think I'm back up and running now. I still have
> to reinstall the patches, etc., this time with the monitor attached.
>
> Thanks for the suggestions guys. I just needed that little extra
> outside perspective to kickstart my brain. Had this not worked, I was
> prepared to try more radical measures that you had suggested.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ron
>
>
> On 3/20/2013 8:34 PM, Greg Clifton wrote:
>> Ron,
>>
>> Well, if you have the disc and the license code, you can
>> always re-install (guaranteed cure for all Windows problems ;-) But
>> then that will probably want to use the primary display so probably
>> won't work. But, if you had a current backup you might
>> try restoring that.
>>
>> If you see the BIOS screen, you should be able to go into the BIOS
>> and set it to boot from a CD or USB stick so maybe UBCD4W would help?
>>
>> Now if you had a delay set for how long the computer waits to
>> actually start loading Windows, you might be able to catch it and go
>> into safe mode and MAYBE you'd get your external monitor back in safe
>> mode, but I doubt it. If that did work and you knew which setting to
>> change, which I don't off the top of my head. The external monitor
>> was probably auto-disabled when the system booted and didn't find it.
>>
>> Maybe a serial console, but probably that would have needed to have
>> been configured beforehand?
>>
>> Best,
>> Greg
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE)
>> <atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com
>> <mailto:atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Please don't flame me, but I need XP help. I KNOW it's getting
>> obsolete (per other threads), but there's something cool about
>> keeping a vintage computer running as long as I can. You guys
>> are the geekiest people I know and I don't hang out on Windows
>> forums.
>>
>> I have a vintage 2002 laptop. It's still very capable. 2.4 ghz
>> cpu, 1 GB ram, 320 GB hdd. The laptop hinges broke and the
>> internal monitor is non functional, but the OS THINKS it's
>> functional. For years, I've been running on an external monitor
>> via a kvm along with other pc's. Through a series of unfortunate
>> events, including rebooting with the kvm switched to another pc,
>> as far as I can tell, the system now thinks the external monitor
>> is both the extended desktop and is deactivated.
>>
>> So, when I boot the PC, I see the bios requesting my password ON
>> THE EXTERNAL monitor, so I know the monitor and vga port works.
>> I enter it. I see the boot menu on my external monitor. I
>> select Windows XP. The monitor goes blank and never returns. I
>> can only assume that the windows login screen is showing up in
>> the internal monitor (as far as the OS is concerned), but I
>> cannot see that. I know the OS is running, because I can press
>> the power button briefly and, after 5 seconds or so, the system
>> shuts down.
>>
>> I've tried the function button on the keyboard to switch from
>> internal to external monitor. That does no good. I tried the
>> VGA mode boot option from the boot menu, and that worked.
>> Operating in 640 x 480 mode is REALLY fun, not. However, when I
>> do a normal mode boot, it stays blank again.
>>
>> Does anyone know how I can force the system back into mirror
>> monitor mode, or better yet, permanently disable the internal
>> monitor? Even if I have to boot Ubuntu and mess with files,
>> etc., that would be OK.
>>
>> It won't kill me if I can't get this back, since I can boot
>> Ubuntu and get to the files. I just didn't want to retire the
>> unit just yet.
>>
>> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Ron
>>
>>
>>
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