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    Dell Inspiron 5160 Video Problem

    I have a Dell Inspiron 5160 laptop that I am not getting any video on. The screen is black. Normally I would suspect the inverter or the lcd backlight as the culprit.

    But when I hook this laptop up to an external monitor all I see is the desktop wallpaper with no icons. The desktop wallpaper is a picture of a coffee cup. I do hear the laptop boot into windows so it sounds as if it is working.

    If I right click and then try to get into the display properties on the external monitor nothing happens so am I correct in assuming that this would be a bad video card? Would a bad video card cause the laptop lcd not to come on and would a bad video card cause the external analog port also not to work correctly?

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    Did you try booting it via the external monitor into safe mode and have you rechecked the screen is enabled which is usually FN+ F8 or in the bios?

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    Ok, I am able to boot into Safe Mode and see everything with the external monitor. Since I can now see everything in Safe Mode I assume that my video card is ok even though it is through the external vga port.

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    I got into Safe Mode and then selected Last Known Good Configuration. Once I did that I was able to boot into Normal Mode on the external monitor and see all my desktop icons but I still don't have any LCD screen on the laptop. So it appears that I have either a bad inverter or LCD or maybe both.

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