External Monitor

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    Solved! Black laptop screen

    Recently my HP Probook 450 G1's display has stopped working, it turns on as I can see the backlight but I am only able to see anything else through use of an external monitor. How can I fix this?
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    Solved! Connecting external monitor to broken laptop issue(video mode not supported)

    hello! my laptop screen is broken ( Half of it works ) and I decided to use my old samsung monitor, I went and i bought a cabel ( HDMI to VGA ) and i plugged the monitor cabel to the laptop. and On the monitor it says Video mode not supported. How can I fix the problem to use the monitor insted...
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    Solved! Dell laptop screen boots yo then qits will only work on external monitor

    When I turn it on the screen boots as usual then goes black unless I hook to HDMI monitor.
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    Solved! [eGPU]External monitors to share eGPU and iGPU

    Hi, Here is the background. I'm using MBP15 late2016 with RP455, three external monitors and a sonnet RX580 eGPU. Since the eGPU is the only one that power up the three monitors the RP455 is basically idle all the time. so I'm wondering if its possible to hook up one monitor directly to my MBP...
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    Solved! Setting an external monitor to boot with lost screen

    Hello ! im new to this comunity and if i put this in the wrong category fell free to tell me, anyways i have an samsung rv520 laptop and it has a broken screen ,the laptop wont boot now .theres only a white cracked screen , my little brother did something in the commands promt..i asked him what...
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    Acer aspire one with black screen

    My Acer aspire one series N214 Model No ZG5 power on but nothing display on the screen and on external monitor please help
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    Solved! Is there any way to connect your external monitor to your dedicated graphics card

    I have an ASUS gaming laptop with a GTX 960m in it and a 144 Hz monitor that I recently bought. The problem is that my monitor isn't running at 144 Hz. When I go into my display settings on windows 10, it says that it's using the Intel graphics card and I don't know how to change it so that the...
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    Using integrated graphics card on external Monitor instead of dedicated graphics card

    Greetings, I just got a new laptop not too long ago. its an MSI PE62VR (intel core i7 7700hq, Nvidia GTX 1060m), which has enough power for me to do my school work. I always used a second monitor to get my college work done, it's really nice to have two screens to work with multiple virtual...
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    Is my laptop able to handle 120 hz 1080p external monitor?

    Hello, I am planning on getting a 120 hz monitor for my laptop, can anyone help me clarify my laptop's hdmi port (and cable) version? and does it supports 120 hz external monitor at 1080p? laptop model: Inspiron 15 7000 Series 7559 cable...
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    Hooking my laptop up to bluetooth speaker and external monitor

    [Moderator note: moved post from Technologies to Home Entertainment.] I have a Lenovo laptop which I often take out to do presentations. I want to hook up my bluetooth speaker and a 40 inch smart TV as an external monitor in able to have a big screen so that people in a large area can see the...
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    Solved! Running vostro 3550 with cracked LCD

    So after I went back home LCD on my vostro broke and I only get 8 beeps that signals LCD erros, but is there any option to run it with just external screen ? I really don't want to get a new screen just becous the price is ridiculous.
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    Dell G7 freezes while gaming, the laptop is closed, connected to external monitor, but resumes once the lid is opened

    I have a new Dell G7 Laptop. Runs perfectly fine. Only issue is when I play games with an external monitor, the game freezes. I have to open the laptop back up and then everything goes back to normal. I close it and then 5- 10 minutes later bam its stuck and I have to open it again. Not the...
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    Laptop with Broken Screen Won't Connect with an External Monitor

    I have a laptop with a broken screen so I have to connect to an external monitor to use it. I initially was able to connect to an external monitor after trying some stuff. However after a power outage while using the laptop, I proceed to sleep just to wake up and find that my external monitor...
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    Black screen on external monitor for laptop after driver update

    Hello, I had used driver booster by IObit to update anything out of date and when it had finished and after I had restarted the computer, the external monitor's screen was black. I had attempted to troubleshoot on my own and had reset the PC but still the black screen, I also uninstalled and...
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    laptop + external monitor + sound bar?

    I want to use these three components together: laptop with HDMI output, Yamaha YAS-107 sound bar with HDMI in/out, external monitor with HDMI input. I'd like to connect my laptop to the sound bar with an HDMI cable, then connect the sound bar to an external PC monitor with another HDMI cable...
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    I took the screen completly off my HP Pavillion laptop and hooked up an external. I accidently told the display to read the on

    I took the screen off my hp pavilion laptop and was using an external monitor, i accidentally told the computer to display to the on board monitor, now my external monitor wont work.Is there any keys on the key board that will undo what i did or get the external monitor to work?
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    Laptop auto shuts down every 30 mins but was solved when I used an external monitor. Can somebody explain this?

    I have a laptop that was constantly shutting every 15 to 30 mins.Longest 45 mins tops. It drove me crazy because I needed to finish my assignment. I tried a few tips provided here on tom's guide but nothing seems to work. A friend asked me to use an external monitor (Acer monitor) and see if I...
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    Solved! asus lock 1 problem

    Hi I got problem with lock 1, when i connect with external monitor can open and off the laptop and try to turn and happen again lock 1, pls try to help
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    Laptop screen stopped working After windows update

    I bought a new MSI gs63 stealth a few months ago. Everything has been great. Today I turn it on and the screen is blank. All the keys light up and if I plug it into an external monitor with the hdmi that works. Is there something I might be missing here? I searched this issue and couldn't find...
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    My thinkpad only connects to an external monitor how can I get it to work without the external monitor

    Black screen needing to connect without an external screen how to fix ?