DELL inspiron 8200 - displayNVIDIA GeForce4 440 GO I was installing microsoft office 2007, after the system rebooted, thescreen whent black, the laptop is runing, i can turn on and off capslock, you can see some light on the screen, a connected a externalmonitor, but does not work, i managed to start in safe mode with theexternal monitor, i download the latest driver for the videocontroler,\the display adapter is : NVIDIA Geforce4 440 go, i used the systemrestore but did not work. any help please, the laptop is no mine if ido not fix it, i will have to paid for it.
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Jump to PostIn Safe mode, you might need to right click on Desktop, and in Properties/Settings choose the external monitor as the primary display.
Then, hopefully, it will boot in normal mode with the external display.
This then means that laptop screen circuitry or the screem iteslf has failed and …
Jump to PostOK - I tried it just now and you're right. I should have tried it before advising!
When you've booted in Normal Mode (or indeed while you're booting) what happens if you hit Fn F8 to switch you to the external monitor?
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