TechiMan
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I have an old Acer laptop (had it for over 10 years) running on XP, due to the screen going faulty years ago (which I've never bothered to get repaired) I decided to connect it up to a 22 year old Dell CRT monitor, which I am surprised has lasted so long. It is connected by the monitor's VGA cable to the VGA input on the laptop. All has been fairly well up until today when I can't seem to get an image. When I switch on the monitor it displays a "no signal detected" message, and when I power up the laptop the monitor does display the Windows XP screen scrolling along, but just before the load up of Windows it nothing happen, however, you do hear the Windows power up sound but no picture.
I can't fathom whether this is a fault with the laptop or the monitor. I've switched the button off a few times and powered up and I get the usual options for safe mode, safe mode with networking etc, but when I choose either of them nothing happens after that. Now if this was a fault with the monitor or the connection then there wouldn't be any signal at all from the monitor.
I can't fathom whether this is a fault with the laptop or the monitor. I've switched the button off a few times and powered up and I get the usual options for safe mode, safe mode with networking etc, but when I choose either of them nothing happens after that. Now if this was a fault with the monitor or the connection then there wouldn't be any signal at all from the monitor.