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 Post subject: Fixed
PostPosted: November 11th, 2011, 7:48 pm 
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 Post subject: Re: Disabled Video Card -> Black Screen
PostPosted: November 11th, 2011, 10:21 pm 
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Not an expert in this field, so my suggestions may or may not work.

Alpr wrote:
-I've tried removing the computer battery and putting it back in

Do you mean the CMOS battery? If so, try it again and this time leave it out for 30 minutes. I should probably tell you that I had no idea what a CMOS battery was until about 7 minutes ago when I Googled it, so I really don't know what else it it controls besides your BIOS settings. Proceed with caution.


Alternatively, you could try re-enabling your adapter blindly. This is the method I used to access my adapter, with the keyboard, on Windows 7. This is really all the help I can offer, I'm sorry it's not the most elegant method.


-Turn your computer on. Wait a few minutes so it's all loaded and stuff.

-Press The "Windows" button on your keyboard.

-Type "change display settings", this will be typed in the search field.

-Press Enter.

-Press Tab four times to navigate to the "Advanced settings" link.

-Press the Space Bar.

-Press it again to click the "Properties" button in your graphics card Adapter tab.

-Press Tab three times to navigate to the tabs in this window.

-This is where our paths might diverge. You'll need to access the "Driver" tab in this window. For me, it's one tab to the left, so that only requires pressing the LEFT button once. It may be different for you.

-Assuming we're still on the same page, press Tab four times to navigate through the buttons on this window.

-Right now, I'm on the "Disable" button, in the Driver tab. I'm guessing, for you, the button is "Enable". Anyway, I'm too scared to click it, so you're on your own from here. I'm guessing you'll just need to press Enter once, or maybe twice for confirmation.

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 Post subject: Re: Disabled Video Card -> Black Screen
PostPosted: November 11th, 2011, 10:25 pm 
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You have two adapters? Are you sure there isn't an integrated port that you need to plug into?

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 Post subject: Re: Disabled Video Card -> Black Screen
PostPosted: November 12th, 2011, 11:30 am 
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@ Jackstick. I'd love to do it blindly but I don't know the proper sequence to do that, but I'll try what you listed soon :)

As for the battery, I did it twice. First was out and in quick, 2nd time I left it out for nearly 2 hours, no result, and yes, CMOS Battery. I knew what it was because I used it years ago to bypass admin password on my older computer back when my parents blocked me from it :P

@Eadwulf

My monitor came with two plug-ins: A white and blue one. When I first got the computer, I had trouble with it too until I found out to just use the white one and leave the blue one unplugged. I've already tried every combination with the two plug-ins so that doesn't work.

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 Post subject: Re: Fixed
PostPosted: November 12th, 2011, 12:48 pm 
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Fixed it with hooking up my old monitor, although oddly enough I did that last night and got nothing. Maybe it was off, who knows lol

Anyways, fixed :D Now to get skyrim working....

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