Lines On Monitor of Acer TravelMate 4200

Try another Cord/Charger with the EXACT same power specs. Have you cleaned the fan, vents, heatsink recently? Do you get to any screen? BIOS setup? Boot Menu? Has the AC jack been damaged due to pulling on the cord?

repeatedly hit Fn+f8 button

plug into an external monitor and boot up again. Do you see anything on the external monitor? do you see hard disk light? power light? post back what you find.

Still using an external monitor because the screen on the laptop it out of services. Try to found the same screen on the internet an buy it. Remenber a new sceen is one of the most espensive part.

Backlight tube is going out there about $10-$20 fairly easy to install.

is ther any sound? does the screen seem lose from the keyboard at all mabey bad connection between the two ormotherboard problem , very hard and tedious to fix

go to the computer hardware point or servicestation.

check your battery

Assuming you are connecting the mointor to DVI or VGA cable. You can connect the monitor through windows. In vista, right click, personalize, display settings, You should see a greyed out monitor. Click extened the desktop onto this monitor, It should automaticaly detect itself.
In xp its similar. Right click on desktop, go to properties. You should see a screen pop up. Go to the last tab. it should be monitor. Click on teh greyed out area and click Extend the display to this monitor.

press "FN" KEY and press F5 or F6 key if you post your
keyboard layout photograph so i can better explain