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Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / August 2005How to see external display attached to iBook?
My 2003 iBook just lost its LCD, making it urgent that I get an external display up and going on it. What's the trick to this? I hooked up an Emachines VGA monitor to it with no results. I gather there is no key sequence to send video out as there is on Windows laptops. The Mac help site just says "make sure all the cables are secure", etc., and they are. I hope it's not that the display hardware *beneath* the LCD has died, but if it hasn't: does anyone have a suggestion? I saw something about Powerbooks needing USB keyboard & mouse plugged in before believing they had an external display. Is this true for iBooks? Thanks much for any suggestions. Mark McWiggins 425-369-8286 > My 2003 iBook just lost its LCD, making it urgent > that I get an external display up and going on it. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > USB keyboard & mouse plugged in before believing they > had an external display. Is this true for iBooks? first, check <http://www.apple.com/support/ibook/faq/> and see if it qualifies for a repair. as for using an external monitor, simply plug it into the ibook; there is no key sequence - it should just work. there is no need for a usb keyboard or mouse either. from your description, it sounds like the motherboard has failed. My suggestion would be to take out the hard drive and put it in another Mac, or perhaps a bootable external enclosure, to access the data on it. I think what youre refering to would be that in order to use your ma with the lid closed you have to have a keyboard, mouse, power adapter and video out all. Now thats only when the lid is closed. If the to is open just a video connection should get you going -- frozendic macosx.com - The Answer to Mac Support - http://www.macosx.co It does qualify for the Apple extended repair program. Thanks for the pointer; I guess there were enough of these that some people threatened lawsuits, etc. the last year or so. Mine's going into the shop tonight! Fortunately the display came back long enough for me to get a good backup. |
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