Booting up My laptop was recenty knocked off of a coffee table. The screen is cracked so I hooked it to an external monitor. When it boots up it will ask what mode I want to run in. If I click normal mode, everything comes up normal but shifted to the right of the screen on the monitor and then before I can try to adjust the settings so everything is in middle of the screen the monitor shuts down. I can run the laptop with the external monitor in safe mode and it works, icons and desktop is centered and looks good. Is there a program I can run while in safe mode to find out if it's the motherboard or if something else was knocked loose? Thank you for any help as I do not have the money to repair the laptop right now.

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What is happening is that the screen resolution of the notebook is not matching the capabilities of the monitor and is therefore going into power saving mode, unfortunately you wont be able to change it as the screen is damaged, that is why it works in safe mode as the resolution is only 640 x 480 without any graphics drivers

Posted on Aug 29, 2007

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