Hi! I have a dell latitude d830. I am having issues with the monitor display. It is not working but when i connect an external monitor it works.
but the only way the external monitor works is to select F12 right when powing on and pressing the fn key + F8
to go to the external monitor, then I select the HDD option to boot the OS and it comes up fine on the
external monitor. I ran a test by pressing the D button while powering on the laptop and colors red, grey, black
blue appears on the laptop screen. When first powering on the laptop screen it appears to show a back light, but no display. Just a dark screen with some light to it.
I don't have a warranty anymore on this laptop, so I will have to buy parts to fix it. I know I will have to call Dell, but wondered if anyone else has a pretty good idea what the issue is? It seems to me that it is the laptop screen that needs to be replaced. Anyone else have this issue?