Solve : Laptop with Second Monitor problem?

1.	Solve : Laptop with Second Monitor problem?
Answer» Well, doesn't that clearly indicate a bad monitor? Is it an LCD monitor? As I understand it, failure in LCD monitors is often due to a bad internal power supply component, and that component can be replaced. I have a 19 inch LCD that someone turned in to a recycling drive conducted by a local computer users' group to which I belong. It did not work. A friend who knows a lot about electrical circuitry and who is also a member of the group fixed it by pulling a power supply component from another monitor, as I understand it, and I became the new owner. I've been using it for about 6 weeks now and it's working FINE. So, if you have any repair shops in your area, you might want to explore the repair option.Quote from: soybean on December 24, 2008, 10:26:04 AM Well, doesn't that clearly indicate a bad monitor? Is it an LCD monitor? As I understand it, failure in LCD monitors is often due to a bad internal power supply component, and that component can be replaced. I have a 19 inch LCD that someone turned in to a recycling drive conducted by a local computer users' group to which I belong. It did not work. A friend who knows a lot about electrical circuitry and who is also a member of the group fixed it by pulling a power supply component from another monitor, as I understand it, and I became the new owner. I've been using it for about 6 weeks now and it's working fine. So, if you have any repair shops in your area, you might want to explore the repair option. The only problem I have with this diagnosis is that the monitor (LCD 19") does DISPLAY as normal for about 5 seconds when it is connected, and then it GOES off. It's almost as if it WOULD work if it could be bothered, heh.So one monitor works and the other doesn't? What brand of monitors are we talking about and have you tried removing the monitor entries from the device manager yet? Quote from: Raptor on December 24, 2008, 10:47:06 AM So one monitor works and the other doesn't? What brand of monitors are we talking about and have you tried removing the monitor entries from the device manager yet? The "broken" monitor is a ViewSonic VA1912w 19" LCD. The working monitor is a 17" Sony Trinitron Multiscan17SEII (which is 10 years old and going strong, heh). I've not tried removing anything from the device manager yet. The only entries in the Monitors section are Generic PnP (which is my laptop monitor) and generic non-pnp (which only appears when I plug in either the working or the non-working monitor)Yes, that Sony monitor is of very high quality. Can't stand the little lines that you see running across the screen, though. Try removing the generic non-PNP and restart. Keep the monitor hooked on If that doesn't work, get monitor drivers from the manufacturer's webpage and load those. Quote from: Raptor on December 24, 2008, 10:59:09 AM Yes, that Sony monitor is of very high quality. Can't stand the little lines that you see running across the screen, though. Try removing the generic non-PNP and restart. Keep the monitor hooked on If that doesn't work, get monitor drivers from the manufacturer's webpage and load those. Just tried both these, hasn't HELPED. Any more suggestions? Try the non-functioning monitor on the other laptop? Quote from: Raptor on December 24, 2008, 11:29:41 AM Try the non-functioning monitor on the other laptop? Tried, failed. Beginning to think it's irretreivable without a soldering iron or similar. Thanks for your help, by the way.Can't you hook it up to a computer where it'll be the primary monitor? Bit easier to verify it's status that way.

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Well, doesn't that clearly indicate a bad monitor? Is it an LCD monitor?

As I understand it, failure in LCD monitors is often due to a bad internal power supply component, and that component can be replaced. I have a 19 inch LCD that someone turned in to a recycling drive conducted by a local computer users' group to which I belong. It did not work. A friend who knows a lot about electrical circuitry and who is also a member of the group fixed it by pulling a power supply component from another monitor, as I understand it, and I became the new owner. I've been using it for about 6 weeks now and it's working FINE.

So, if you have any repair shops in your area, you might want to explore the repair option.Quote from: soybean on December 24, 2008, 10:26:04 AM

Well, doesn't that clearly indicate a bad monitor? Is it an LCD monitor?

As I understand it, failure in LCD monitors is often due to a bad internal power supply component, and that component can be replaced. I have a 19 inch LCD that someone turned in to a recycling drive conducted by a local computer users' group to which I belong. It did not work. A friend who knows a lot about electrical circuitry and who is also a member of the group fixed it by pulling a power supply component from another monitor, as I understand it, and I became the new owner. I've been using it for about 6 weeks now and it's working fine.

So, if you have any repair shops in your area, you might want to explore the repair option.

The only problem I have with this diagnosis is that the monitor (LCD 19") does DISPLAY as normal for about 5 seconds when it is connected, and then it GOES off. It's almost as if it WOULD work if it could be bothered, heh.So one monitor works and the other doesn't?

What brand of monitors are we talking about and have you tried removing the monitor entries from the device manager yet? Quote from: Raptor on December 24, 2008, 10:47:06 AM

So one monitor works and the other doesn't?

What brand of monitors are we talking about and have you tried removing the monitor entries from the device manager yet?

The "broken" monitor is a ViewSonic VA1912w 19" LCD. The working monitor is a 17" Sony Trinitron Multiscan17SEII (which is 10 years old and going strong, heh).

I've not tried removing anything from the device manager yet. The only entries in the Monitors section are Generic PnP (which is my laptop monitor) and generic non-pnp (which only appears when I plug in either the working or the non-working monitor)Yes, that Sony monitor is of very high quality. Can't stand the little lines that you see running across the screen, though.

Try removing the generic non-PNP and restart. Keep the monitor hooked on
If that doesn't work, get monitor drivers from the manufacturer's webpage and load those. Quote from: Raptor on December 24, 2008, 10:59:09 AM

Yes, that Sony monitor is of very high quality. Can't stand the little lines that you see running across the screen, though.

Try removing the generic non-PNP and restart. Keep the monitor hooked on
If that doesn't work, get monitor drivers from the manufacturer's webpage and load those.

Just tried both these, hasn't HELPED. Any more suggestions?
Try the non-functioning monitor on the other laptop? Quote from: Raptor on December 24, 2008, 11:29:41 AM

Try the non-functioning monitor on the other laptop?

Tried, failed. Beginning to think it's irretreivable without a soldering iron or similar.

Thanks for your help, by the way.Can't you hook it up to a computer where it'll be the primary monitor? Bit easier to verify it's status that way.

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