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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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CCFL technology.) The clue here is that inverters never go quietly.

They can make a nasty hum as they are about to die and an equally

nasty popping noise when they actually fail. Failure often occurs when

you plug in the laptop’s AC adapter, as the inverters take power

directly from the AC adapter. It’s also possible that the backlights in

the LCD panel have died, though this is much less common than a bad

inverter.

• If the screen won’t come on or is cracked, most laptops have a port for

plugging in an external monitor, which you can use to log in to your

laptop.

• If you plug a laptop into an external monitor and that monitor does not

display, remember that you have both a hardware and an OS

component to making dual displays successful. There’s usually a

combination of fn and another key to toggle among only portable, only

external, and both displays. Plus, you have the Display Settings or

Display applet in the Control Panel to mirror or extend the desktop to a

second monitor.

• Many manufacturers have switched to LED displays on laptops, which

has led to a phenomenon many techs thought long behind us: flickering

displays. The LED backlights don’t work quite the same as CCFL

backlights, especially when you lower the brightness. This doesn’t

affect desktop LED displays, because they’re usually so bright it

doesn’t matter. But portables need to be able to dim to save battery

life. One technique for dimming LEDs is to have them turn on and off

rapidly enough to keep the pixels lit, but slowly enough that there’s a

reduction in visible light and electricity use. With some of these

panels, that flickering is not only noticeable, but headache and

eyestrain inducing. There are two ways to fix a flickering LED display:

crank up the brightness so that it goes away (and thus live with reduced

battery life) or replace the laptop.

• If the screen orientation on a Windows portable doesn’t change when

the device is rotated, auto-rotation may be disabled. Likewise, if the

orientation changes at the wrong time, you can lock rotation in

Settings, or via the Display applet in the Control Panel. If the rotation

needs to remain locked, the orientation can still be changed via

Settings/Display, or possibly with fn key combinations.

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