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ConturaLaptop 3/25 Blank Screen
Name: Denise Date: September 17, 2002 at 12:20:59 Pacific OS: 3.1 CPU/Ram: unknown
Comment:
My Contura 3/25 was working fine last night until I went into System Setting to try and give my notebook some color. I changed something to or from VGA w/Mono... in the System Setting menu.
Now my system will turn on and go through the steps of loading the setting etc, but after it's done there is Nothing but a blank screen, and there is no mouse curser movement either. Before I did this, everything such as Microsoft Office, Main, Games etc would appear after login.
Someone gave this laptop to me for word processing, so I do not have the original disks or manual.
Name: Z Furman Date: September 17, 2002 at 15:56:42 Pacific
Reply:
Hi Denise: When you boot to Win 3.1 your screen setting is set to a video driver that will not show a picture on your screen. To fix that you most likely need to change the video setting back to VGA, so there are 2 way to do that. First to exit Win 3.1 using keys (ALT/F4 then Enter) should get you to DOS prompt c:\, from there use dosshell to find setup.exe file in Windows directory to run & change video back to VGA. The second way is to use Edit command to open & change [boot] display.drv=VGA.drv in system.ini, this is harder to to so be careful.
Good luck. Z
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Response Number 2
Name: Denise Date: September 17, 2002 at 18:33:13 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks a lot Z, it worked! I had to go in and change the setting back to VGA. I have another question, how can I add Color or is this series too old?
Thanks D
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Response Number 3
Name: N1 Date: September 18, 2002 at 09:30:45 Pacific
Reply:
Denise, I also own a Compaq Contura 3/25 Laptop...the only way to add color is to use an external Color Monitor...both the Contura 3/20 & 3/25 came with Monochrome VGA screens...the Contura 4/20 & 4/25 series came with Color VGA screens...
HTH... N1
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Response Number 4
Name: Denise Date: September 20, 2002 at 05:21:34 Pacific
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