sp2 playing havoc with my monitor driver??

[Guest geurinT]

Hello,

 

I just wiped and reinstalled xp pro. Everything was running good. I have

a laptop with a screen that probably has a burned out backlight or

transformer or some such, so it's on a dock and I'm using an external

monitor. I tried to install the SP2 and everything seemed fine. After the

reboot, all I got on the external monitor is the desktop background pic. No

start menu. No files that were previously on desktop. Figuring I messed

something up I went back to a previous save point and tried to figure out

what I did wrong. Posted on here but didn't get anywhere. So I tried again.

Same thing, but before I reboot I looked at the screen of the laptop -

besides being extremely dim it looks good. I go and get a flashlight. yep,

looks like all is well with the computer, just won't send anything but the

desktop background to the external monitor. So here I sit with headlamp on

trying to figure out how to get the monitor to work again. Any thoughts?

Besides that I look rediculous?

[Guest R. McCarty]

Re: sp2 playing havoc with my monitor driver??

 

All notebooks have a key combination to switch video from the

internal to external monitor. Sound like the setup is configured

to a multi-monitor layout. I'd try the Function+__ keypress and

see if you can toggle the primary output to the external monitor.

 

"geurinT" <geurinT@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:800A749F-8B51-4992-BA43-6AAA673FE5CD@microsoft.com...

> Hello,

>

> I just wiped and reinstalled xp pro. Everything was running good. I have

> a laptop with a screen that probably has a burned out backlight or

> transformer or some such, so it's on a dock and I'm using an external

> monitor. I tried to install the SP2 and everything seemed fine. After

> the

> reboot, all I got on the external monitor is the desktop background pic.

> No

> start menu. No files that were previously on desktop. Figuring I messed

> something up I went back to a previous save point and tried to figure out

> what I did wrong. Posted on here but didn't get anywhere. So I tried

> again.

> Same thing, but before I reboot I looked at the screen of the laptop -

> besides being extremely dim it looks good. I go and get a flashlight.

> yep,

> looks like all is well with the computer, just won't send anything but the

> desktop background to the external monitor. So here I sit with headlamp

> on

> trying to figure out how to get the monitor to work again. Any thoughts?

> Besides that I look rediculous?

[Guest geurinT]

Re: sp2 playing havoc with my monitor driver??

 

This was indeed the problem. Fixed it by going into properties on the

desktop and playing around with monitor settings. It was set to dual

monitors and the Fn option wouldn't set me up to just use the external as a

main monitor.

 

"R. McCarty" wrote:

> All notebooks have a key combination to switch video from the

> internal to external monitor. Sound like the setup is configured

> to a multi-monitor layout. I'd try the Function+__ keypress and

> see if you can toggle the primary output to the external monitor.

>

> "geurinT" <geurinT@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> news:800A749F-8B51-4992-BA43-6AAA673FE5CD@microsoft.com...

> > Hello,

> >

> > I just wiped and reinstalled xp pro. Everything was running good. I have

> > a laptop with a screen that probably has a burned out backlight or

> > transformer or some such, so it's on a dock and I'm using an external

> > monitor. I tried to install the SP2 and everything seemed fine. After

> > the

> > reboot, all I got on the external monitor is the desktop background pic.

> > No

> > start menu. No files that were previously on desktop. Figuring I messed

> > something up I went back to a previous save point and tried to figure out

> > what I did wrong. Posted on here but didn't get anywhere. So I tried

> > again.

> > Same thing, but before I reboot I looked at the screen of the laptop -

> > besides being extremely dim it looks good. I go and get a flashlight.

> > yep,

> > looks like all is well with the computer, just won't send anything but the

> > desktop background to the external monitor. So here I sit with headlamp

> > on

> > trying to figure out how to get the monitor to work again. Any thoughts?

> > Besides that I look rediculous?

>

>

>