You may want to check the ribbon cable from the LCD to the system board, may need cleaning, use the eraser of a pencil to clean contacts on cable.
Plug in the desktop monitor to the laptop and turn the laptop. if nothing comes up, go to desplay settings.
If the IBM laptop you use has a VGA port you just connect your monitor cable directly to the port. Then turn on the laptop and it should install the drivers needed to use the external monitor automatically. If you laptop does not have a VGA port then you will need a "Laptop replica port" to add the VGA port so you can connect the monitor.
buy a new laptop! Its broken! (preferably Alienware)
yes it is 100% possible you just need to dissemble the screen and remove it carefully and all the casing then you just plug in the external monitor the turn the laptop on and press hold Fn the press F8 until the image shows on the screen that the normal shortcut on a laptop.
if they flicker then most likely another turn sigal on the same side is bad or the bulb is blown
it would help if you made sense
Option 1: There should be a monitor port on the back of the laptop. It's a blue plug. Take a monitor from a desktop computer and plug it into the blue port on the laptop. Then turn your laptop on. You will be able to see your laptop screen on the desktop monitor. Then save your files to a CD or flash drive. Option 2: If you don't have a blue monitor port on the laptop you will need to pull the hard drive out of the laptop and buy a hard drive 2.5" (Either SATA or IDE) to USB adapter then you can plug the hard drive into another computer and read the files, copy them, etc.. This option should be carried out by a technically savy person or computer tech.
Turn off whole laptop. unwire it You can close the lid, but then it will turn the laptop off, and you can lose any unsaved work. It will also have to go through a re-boot when you turn it back on. The only sure way (without losing any data) is to click on the "X" on the top right of the screen to close everything down until you are left with your main screen, then, shut it down.
If it isn't going into "sleep" mode (in which case just move your mouse), you may have a bad capacitor or diode in the monitor.
You cannot tell. You would need to turn it on.
yes it will. The laptop should notice it as a plug and play and install it automatic. The only problem is that both the laptop screen and the moniter will be on at the same time. Hope this helps Most if not all laptops have a video out socket on the back. It could be the normal VGA D-type adapter or simply S-video, take a lead from this to your monitor and it should work. There may be an option you need to turn on, to get the video to output through the video out socket.
You should leave it for at least an hour and make sure that the battery finishes turn it back on and it will work if yours is constant(laptop or computer) take it to a computer scientist