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[prairiedogsplatr]

i am trying to use a secondary monitor but i cant seem to get fn + f4 to work am i doing this correct?

machine also powers on i feel fan and hdd moving softly. 1 lite comes on. should be 1 lite then a flash of about 4 lites. The 1 lite that stays on decides to turn off after about 1 min and the pc still has power fan is still going and usb if i put something in it lites up. Motherboard tester still not picking up a code.

[mudmanc4]

I can't seem to find anything on the keys to make this happen, where did you find out that it was the f4 key ?

edit, I found this...................

           Fn + F3, Fn + F5, Fn + F8, or Fn + F9 is pressed to switch between alternate displays. So if your laptop was Fn + F3, pressing and holding both Fn and F3 at the same time would switch between displays.

[prairiedogsplatr]

Well i couldn't get any combo of those to work but i did get it to work on another laptop. I even took the monitors off both of them and tried it. Without the attached monitor connected the 2nd laptop pushed the screen instantly to the 2nd monitor. But screen vanished and i used an fn +f? (cant remember) and it showed up and worked fine. tried that same psu in the laptop in question and still wont post. Thing just getting worse and worse it seems like maybe its day is done

[mudmanc4]

Well if it is a gonner, you cant say you didn't put an effort forth.

Here's a motherboard for it. But no CPU included, so if in fact that is the bad part .......


Here's the CPU.

OR....... maybe those above aren't such a great idea, because chec this out.