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I have this Dell Latitude E6400 laptop which I was very proud of until its monitor crashed. Meanwhile, it’s connected to an external LCD monitor (through a VGA cable). The monitor on my laptop is completely blank (or garbled), meanwhile the external monitor is alive and kicking. That made me think that I don’t have a problem with the video card (256MB NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M (Dell) it’s the !&^#% monitor. My question would be: How can I see the DOS boot sequence on the external monitor? Because, as I fire up my laptop, on the external screen I read ‘No signal’. Of course, as soon as Windows 7 loads, there you go, all hunky dory! But it unnerves me because I need to get into the BIOS setup and I have no control. Thank you!
Hi @dellight , Not sure if it will work but try the following: Keep tapping F2 on start up for about 5 seconds. (I realize that you will not “see” the BIOS screen on the internal LCD screen but the boot process should stop on the BIOS screen) then try pressing Fn + F8 and see if you get the BIOS screen to display on the external monitor. According to the User Guide for the E6400, Fn + F8 toggles between the external display and the internal LCD screen
