Its a Compal FL90 with a Geforce 8600GT. An IBuyPower laptop made for gaming, I do believe that the video card is not integrated, but I also see no way of removing it. (I haven't taken the thing completely apart though, I fear I wont be able to put it back. I only feel safe removing the doors on laptops.)
The screen doesn't turn on at all, the external monitor turns on but is acting like its disconnected.
My graphics card has shown no signs at all of failing, the corner of the laptop (on the opposite side) would get hot and it would reboot, but that problem stopped when I made it stationary and raised it up.
Read my fucking posts PizzaPlanet, I have stated how the monitors dont work in just about all.
The laptop display does not turn on at all.
The external display turns on, but acts as if it is not connected.
Just a fast question:
Are you able to see any backlight on the laptop screen normally when it's black and now you can't?
When its black, as in a blank screensaver was up, yes I could see light. When the screen shut off though (I believe I had it set to 20m of inactivity to shut off the monitor) it had no visible backlight. That is how it appears now.
What confuses me most is, I know it isn't the screen because the VGA port is also out. When the laptop was closed and a cord was in the VGA port, the external monitor would immediately take its place as the main monitor. That no longer happens. Its an old CRT monitor so its got the 3 colors and it tells me the monitor is working fine, to check my computer.