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Dell Inspiron 6000 Extended Desktop display function not working.

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by jessica.funk

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A few months ago my laptop screen went black in the middle of a movie. Now it is visible during boot sequence, but stays black after that. I hooked up an external monitor and all was working well until the other day when I clicked the Extended Desktop option in the Graphics Properties section. Now my external monitor is black too. I can see my mouse pointer, but Ctrl+Alt+Del doesn't work, right-click doesn't work (it just beeps). I've tried restarting and going to safe mode, but it won't do that either. I need my display back. What can I do to enable my external monitor again and disable the extended desktop display option?

P.S. : I'm running Windows XP.

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by gary56789

try the Fn+F8 keys to toggle between the three video modes supported?

by aavishkarj

Hi there,
I am also having the same problem with my Inspiron 6000. I see the screen during startup but then it goes black.In my case I dont have a extrenal monitor available to try what u have tried. Were you able to get the laptop screen issue resolved?

looking forward to your reply.

Cheers !!!

by kpqb7

i am having the same problem with my laptop. please email me and let me know what you did to solve this

by pruddock

I have had the same exact problem with mine and I've been running off an external monitor. I was watching a movie and it went black and now it just shows the start-up briefly then goes black. If anybody knows what's going on with this prblem please contact me. Thanks you

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