On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 20:58:23 +0000, Doctor John wrote:

> One of my laptops is finally dying. At least, the screen is; it has a
> beautiful magenta tint.
> I'm running openSUSE 13.1 on it (I upgraded two days ago) and I'm pretty
> sure it will run a second monitor through the VGA socket on the side. My
> question is, therefore, has anyone here tried to remove a laptop screen
> and then boot the machine?
> I have a feeling it will fail POST, but does anyone know different?
> BTW It's a Toshiba A110-274

I haven't tried removing the screen and booting it, but replacing a 
laptop screen isn't difficult - I think I found a spare for an old Dell 
laptop I have around here on eBay for pretty cheap.  I know I found 
motherboards there as well.

Jim

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