Function with cracked Screen

Is it possible?? I have an external display hooked up to it. I have OSX 10.5 and windows as my OSes. I have tried yo boot with external display plugged in but I get nowhere. Puter use to boot up to leopard by default. Any help is appreciated.

-m0

 

Yes, I was wondering that myself. I broke my screen (very easy to do, I closed it on something) and I can't get it to work with an external monitor. Well, it shows for a second, then quits.

 

Anyone have a solution for this?

THanks,

m

 

yeah, I still can't get it to work either. Wish that there was a solution. My guess is that Windows is seeing the monitor hardware for the first time and putting up some prompts... which we can't see. Too bad, I could have used it as a desktop. Shopping for a replacement now, probably not an AAO though since it was so easy for me to break. My old eeePC 701 is still going strong.

 

Try this - boot up without the external screen attached. Wait a few minutes (to allow Windows/OSX to load).
Switch on the external monitor and plug it into the AAO - does the monitor's LED's change (normally from standby to active or something) ?
Press Func + F6 (not in front of my AAO so look on the keyboard for the correct button) - this switches between internal,external and int+ext modes. Does the mointor's LED change at all ?

If the monitors LED doesn't change but the AAO harddisk LED had flickered during startup then you are stuffed. If the LED did change and pressing Func+F6 didn't work press it again (so you've now done it twice). Any change ?

Unless you have a weird monitor, XP should just see it as a default Plug 'n' Play monitor and not need any drivers or do external prompts.

 

Thanks, yes what happens is the monitor starts showing analog/digital as it checks it's two interfaces, I plug it in and XP detects it, there is the "new device" beep. Then I hit the function key (F5 or F6) and nothing happens. Tried hitting enter, escape, etc too in case there was an on screen dialog. The funny thing is that I DID get this monitor to work once during the boot up, but it goes blank when XP loads. I've tried three monitors, this one is a Samsung 204B. I have one more I can try I guess, I'll go do that.

 

You have to enable external monitor in Intel Video driver settings. It will not work on its own.

There are two ways to do it. Read on.

First. If you have access to another AAO working LCD screen then connect it to you AAO and do following:
1. Connect external monitor (OR IT WON'T WORK!!!!)
2. Start Aspire One and boot into Windows XP
3. Once you are logged on, see desktop, and XP is completely loaded (if you do not have video drivers installed, install them now, restart , and start from step1) then right click on Intel Video icon (or press Ctrl+Alt+F12)
4. You will see an option to choose between Notebook screen or External monitor. Choose External monitor and click OK. Confirm changes.
5. Now you can shut down you AAO, remove the internal screen, assemble it back, turn on windows and enjoy it with external monitor ))
6. I'm not sure if the settings with external monitor will stick, so read the next method.

Second. If you do NOT have a working AAO internal LCD screen (assuming you have Intel Video drivers installed!!).
1. Connect external monitor (OR IT WON'T WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!)
2. Start Aspire One and boot into Windows XP
3. Wait until XP fully loads to desktop.
4. Press Ctrl+Alt+F12
5. Press Tab key EXACTLY 13 times.
6. Then click on Right arrow key
7. Press Tab key 5 times.
8. Press Space key.
9. You will see image on external monitor. Confirm changes.
10. DONE!
If the above method doesn't work, and you are sure you followed all the steps correctly, then in step 5 try pressing Tab key 14 times, instead of 13.

 

Thanks, I'll try this and report back. One thing that I CAN do is boot up XP and get into VGA mode on the external monitor. Maybe that will let me mess with the driver. The monitor works, because I bought another AAO and it works with the monitor.

 

Thanks! This works! In addition, it appears to "stick" so that I can shut down or hibernate and the computer still uses the external monitor when it restarts, so I don't have to open my machine to disconnect the broken display panel. Thanks very much for posting this, even though I have a second machine I didn't realize that the problem was this setting in the driver. Maybe I'll attach the AAO to the back of the monitor ha.

 

I havent tried this but thanks anyway as I think it might solve my problem.

Cheers
Scott.