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    Dell Inspiron 6000 - VGA out stopped working

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Dan Average, Jun 11, 2011.

  1. Dan Average

    Dan Average Newbie

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    I've been using my Inspiron 6000's VGA out with my 720p TV for awhile now with no issues. Within the past week it's stopped sending a signal, or at least any signal the monitor can handle. I've tested it with multiple cables and on multiple monitors and the problem persists, regardless of the settings (display resolution/color depth) I use. The PC has no trouble actually detecting the monitor, so the VGA port isn't completely non-functional. Recommendations I've seen include un-/re-installing the video drivers (done), poking around the BIOS setup for anything that might be related to the VGA port (there's nothing), and updating DirectX (seems like a real longshot, anyway I did it and there's no change). Any other suggestions, or should I write this off as a hardware failure? Could anything be done in that case short of a motherboard replacement?

    Edit: Neglected to mention that my model has the Intel 915GM.
     
    Dan Average, Jun 11, 2011
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  2. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    Have you tried with another monitor and cable just for laughs? My dad's Inspiron 6000 is still chugging along just fine. :D
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Jun 11, 2011
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  3. Dan Average

    Dan Average Newbie

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    Yes, I mentioned that. I've tried it with two different cables on three different monitors (my LCD TV, a PC LCD, and an old-fashioned PC CRT). I've also confirmed that both cables work.
     
    Dan Average, Jun 11, 2011
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  4. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    What video card? Discrete or integrated?
     
    Commander Wolf, Jun 12, 2011
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    Wow, forgot all about this...a little red-faced over here...

    Anyway, the 915GM uses integrated graphics (Graphics Media Accelerator 900).
     
    Dan Average, Jun 25, 2011
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    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    If it detects it but no video, possibly could be a short on the motherboard or something. We had an Acer TimelineX which displayed no video on the internal LCD but if we plugged in a VGA cable then the internal LCD worked just fine. We cut a VGA cable and shorted out all the pins and voila it worked. Now I don't recommend or condone it but hey whatever works right. After trying that, could possibly be a bad motherboard, which honestly unless you can find for like 30-40 bucks online and want to do yourself as a weekend DIY project, I would look at another laptop.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Jun 25, 2011
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