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    1420 display problems...

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by garsh0p, Jul 21, 2007.

  1. garsh0p

    garsh0p Notebook Guru

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    i received my 1420 yesterday morning and i did a clean install of vista. it was great, and then later that night, the display stopped working. i plugged in an external monitor and it worked fine, but when i removed the monitor and restarted the laptop, the display didn't work anymore. after fiddling with it for an hour or so, the display started to work.

    this morning, i used it for a few hours and it was fine. i just tried turning it on a few minutes ago and i'm having the same display problem.

    is anyone else experiencing this by any chance?
     
    garsh0p, Jul 21, 2007
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  2. coriolis

    coriolis Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Assuming you tried FN+F7? Or F8? I don't recall which but yours should have 2 FN keys with small images on it of a with a LCD image, one for toggling internal/external LCD output, the other toggling the LCD on/off.
     
    coriolis, Jul 21, 2007
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  3. garsh0p

    garsh0p Notebook Guru

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    yup, tried those.
     
    garsh0p, Jul 21, 2007
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    CyberGhost Notebook Evangelist

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    Did you wipe all partitions that were on the drive? or only the Vista one?
     
    CyberGhost, Jul 21, 2007
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  5. garsh0p

    garsh0p Notebook Guru

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    i only reformatted the vista partition.
     
    garsh0p, Jul 21, 2007
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    it sounds like there could be a driver conflict or possibly an improperly installed driver. try updating the driver for the video card and see if that helps. if that doesn't, it is possible you have a loose connection underneath the keyboard from the motherboard to the display.
     
    brianj320, Jul 22, 2007
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