You actually have a nationwide staff of FREE support at any apple store. looks like your display chip is bad, common problem. Is it covered under warranty?You actually have a nationwide staff of FREE support at any apple store. looks like your display chip is bad, common problem. Is it covered under warranty?
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Have you connect your macbook to an external monitor? If this works then it might not be too bad (lcd inverter) but if no signal comes to the external monitor then it might be bad. Try this 1st before doing anything else.
what are your options on the projector side? Your Mac comes with a DVI (Digital Visual Interface) port.
Attach the DVI to VGA adapter to the VGA connector of the external monitor.
depending on the external monitor/projector, you may need different adapters.
Unplug the display from your macbook, and restart your macbook, when it's fully restarted and you are logged in, plug the display back in, then check to see if it is detected. Macbooks don't like to be put to sleep (shutting the lid) with a display connected, this causes issues with display detection. So always unplug your display and wait about 5 seconds before closing the lid on your macbook, and when you open the lid, wait another 5 seconds before plugging in your display. The only time it is acceptable to leave the display plugged in when you close the lid is when you plan to use the macbook in clamshell mode, this is done by plugging in and configuring your display, shutting the lid, and then "waking" the macbook from sleep mode with an external mouse (wired or wireless will work). That will start the macbook using the external display as the main display, without even turning on the macbook built-in display. Never connect or disconnect an external display when your macbook is off or in sleep mode. Have a nice day.
Connect to external monitor to isolate the problem. If you get a picture on external monitor, then you know your screen is fu.k.d up. Since its a MacBook Pro, it might still be under the 1 year warranty, so take it to the Apple store and have them deal with it. If you get no picture on the external monitor, then you know you got a problem with the computer.
Your Studio Display uses an ADC connector, which is very much like DVI but also supplies power for the monitor and adds USB pins so that you can use the USB on the monitor. In order to use it with something that has DVI instead of ADC, you need this adapter from Apple; there are a couple places that have it $5-10 cheaper, but you may as well get it from the people who made it, Apple probably has a better return policy than anyone else in a situation like this. You hook this adapter into the wall and into your laptop, and hook the monitor into the adapter. Hope this helps!
When you connect an external monitor to your MacBook (or PowerBook,
for that matter), you can combine your MacBook's LCD and your external
monitor to create one big monitor. That means when your mouse pointer
goes off the edge of one, it will appear on the other. Open the
Displays Preference Pane to configure the resolution and orientation of
the two monitors. This type of configuration works well when you want
to keep your main work on your larger external display, but still keep
things like IM, iTunes, and email constantly visible on the smaller
laptop LCD.
Some windows act like they don't want to be
dragged on to your external monitor. If a windows is being stubborn,
try dragging it up to the menu bar, and keep dragging, even if stays
stuck below the menu bar. Sometimes once you have dragged it far enough
that it has room to render the entire window, it will jump to the other
monitor (Terminal used to have this problem, but Apple fixed it some
time ago). If that doesn't work, try dragging it from a corner of your
monitor. My Adium contact list
doesn't seem to want to live on my external monitor, but I can coerce
it up there by dragging up from either corner.
When your
laptop is open, you can't switch to using the full resolution of an
external monitor. I have no idea why, but it's a fact of life for
MacBook users. You can use both displays in "extended" mode, or you can
mirror your MacBook's display (which most likely doesn't use the full
resolution of your external monitor), but you can't switch to using
only the external monitor. Very strange.
If you close your
laptop, you can actually get the full resolution of your external
display. Put your MacBook to sleep, connect your external display and
an external monitor, and wake the computer up by pressing any key. You
will have full use of your external display while your laptop is closed.
If
you really want to have your MacBook open while only using an external
display, after following the procedure above, you can open your
MacBook, and it's screen will remain off, which means you can still use
the MacBook's keyboard and trackpad. Why you can't get into this mode
using F7, I have no idea. This is a good technique for allowing some
heat to dissipate while still using an external display so the lid of
your MacBook doesn't melt or warp.
You can boot your
computer using just an external display. Just connect your external
display, open the lid, hit the power button, and close the lid again
immediately.
In order to output only to an external monitor,
you have to have the power cable connected. I tried for several minutes
yesterday to get my MacBook to wake up with an external keyboard and
monitor before unpacking my AC adapter from my backpack, and it
wouldn't work. It took me a while to make the connection (no pun
intended), but I eventually discovered that with the power cable
attached, everything works as expected.
You actually have a nationwide staff of FREE support at any apple store. looks like your display chip is bad, common problem. Is it covered under warranty?
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