How to connect a laptop tat uses wifi & screen is busted...too old Toshiba Armada window laptop that is dial up only? Got vga

brandeebell09

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I no nothing about computers! Friend has busted screen on wifi laptop xp. I got old dial up only Toshiba Armada windows that works. Connect both with vga 15pin cable so wifi laptop can us Toshiba screen. Doesn't seem to work. Any ideas??? Thanks
 
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So you have a broken laptop and you’re running a VGA cable from that one to a working one with the goal of using the screen on the working one.

The VGA ports on laptops are designed to output a signal to another display such as a TV, monitor, or projector. They do not output signals to other laptop screens.

To see the output from the broken laptop you would need to connect it to a TV or monitor. Not another laptop.

Jwpanz

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So you have a broken laptop and you’re running a VGA cable from that one to a working one with the goal of using the screen on the working one.

The VGA ports on laptops are designed to output a signal to another display such as a TV, monitor, or projector. They do not output signals to other laptop screens.

To see the output from the broken laptop you would need to connect it to a TV or monitor. Not another laptop.
 
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