Help: Laptop Screen Blank

[lasergecko]

My cousin has a IBM 365XD and when it is turned on the screen lights up but there is no video. (It just stays a light black color).
If I hook it up to a to a monitor, I can see the stuff on the screen and it boots fine.

Anyone know how to fix this?

My guess is that this is either something loose.

Thanks in Advance.

 

[LiLithTecH]

If you go into Windows (with monitor hooked up),
right-click Desktop \ Properties \ Settings \ Advanced \ Monitor
and make sure that LCD/MONITOR (both) is ticked

 

[lasergecko]

The screen is blank from the moment I turn the machine on. So I don't think it is a windows driver situation... but I'll try that.

Thanks.

 

[Bug]

Try hitting <Fn> + <F5> or <Fn> + <F7>. Possible that the laptop is outputting to external display only.

 

[lasergecko]

I tried switching video modes.... Fn + f7 and when it is one the laptop video the screen is blank.