On Wednesday 04 October 2006 22:27, Peter Nunn wrote:
If I try and boot to the machine without the external attached, I get a blank screen.
According to SAX its setup for an LCD, but it seems to turn the LCD off and function key switching does nothing to help.
Which notebook are you using? ThinkPad? You should have a bios setting that will bring the machine up in a default screen config (hardware) of External, LCD, or Both... or maybe Auto. There is usually a blue Fn button that in combination with one of the function keys toggles the video output from Both, LCD, External, in a ring fashion. Also, in your bios, you may want to set screen blanking to "off". Also, experiment with turning APM and/or any power related timer functions "off". Sometimes the hardware (without its M$ big brother installed) gets confused and doesn't work properly. This may be biting you. -- Kind regards, M Harris <><