notcrazy_iminsane
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I managed to get this 70lbs monster home
I got it for my sister to use with her laptop since the screen's going out (It's a PC since we can't afford a good Mac Book yet). The problem I'm having with the monitor is that it won't display anything. She booted her laptop with Ubuntu and it detected the monitor (I think it said "Apple 21 Inch Studio Display) and the power button on the display will turn green, but after that, nothing happens. I tried it with her XP partition and got the same result, except XP didn't detect the monitor, but it detected the extra USB ports. As soon as I can get into her OSx86 partition, I'm going to try from there too
I tried it again on my brother's laptop (Also a PC, but a different model) that ran Windows 7. It detected the monitor, tried to configure itself to use it too, but the display still showed nothing xx(
I'm about to try it again using my laptop that's the same as my sister's, but running Windows 7 and see if I get any results. I'm starting to think either a driver is required (which I'd find odd since any other monitor connected to the VGA port works just fine), or maybe something's lose inside of the display keeping it from showing anything. I've looked up and down the internet and can't find anything pertaining to this issue.
And yes I've tried increasing the brightness. It does nothing at all.
I got it for my sister to use with her laptop since the screen's going out (It's a PC since we can't afford a good Mac Book yet). The problem I'm having with the monitor is that it won't display anything. She booted her laptop with Ubuntu and it detected the monitor (I think it said "Apple 21 Inch Studio Display) and the power button on the display will turn green, but after that, nothing happens. I tried it with her XP partition and got the same result, except XP didn't detect the monitor, but it detected the extra USB ports. As soon as I can get into her OSx86 partition, I'm going to try from there too
I tried it again on my brother's laptop (Also a PC, but a different model) that ran Windows 7. It detected the monitor, tried to configure itself to use it too, but the display still showed nothing xx(
I'm about to try it again using my laptop that's the same as my sister's, but running Windows 7 and see if I get any results. I'm starting to think either a driver is required (which I'd find odd since any other monitor connected to the VGA port works just fine), or maybe something's lose inside of the display keeping it from showing anything. I've looked up and down the internet and can't find anything pertaining to this issue.
And yes I've tried increasing the brightness. It does nothing at all.