PhiliPs c59 stuck in extrenal monitor any advice

[jmorcom23]

hi my steP son droPPed my my laPtoP breaking the screen so have been using an external monitor for a while, i have just brought a new lcd and fitted it but no disPlay is on the screen, I distinctly remeber choosing to only show the screen on the extrnal monitor only but have no idea how to revert to using the laPtoP screen any advice would be much aPPreciated oh and yes my P is broken have to coPy and Paste one from somewhere every time i turn it on.

[jmorcom23]

Sorry should be X59 not c59

[Plastic Nev]

Hi and welcome to Extreme Tech Support - Free PC Help.

OK I mean do this on the present external monitor.

Right click on a spare space on the screen, choose properties, then the tab "Settings" in that window it should show the two screens, numbered 1 and 2. At the moment 2 should be the one in use. Click on the number 1 screen, can you now place a tick in the box for "Use this device as the primary monitor"?

 

Nev.

[jmorcom23]

hi number one is default and 2 not clicked as active it is has a grey box around it when i click display monitors it shows the monitor up as number 1.

[KenB]

Hi

 

This doesn't solve your initial problem - but it is a work-around ( hopefully )

 

Fn + one of the "F" keys should toggle your screen from monitor to laptop.

There will be 2 blue monitors on the key. mine is F5