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First post, by dickkickem

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I got a Fujitsu Lifebook C352, and the screen will not show anything. When plugged in it boots normally, but nothing happens on the screen. I tried everything, including putting RAM in and plugging in an external monitor, but it still doesn't show anything. What could be going on?

Edit: Also the lady who I bought this laptop from told me that it worked fine a few weeks ago until it just stopped displaying one day.

Last edited by dickkickem on 2018-08-11, 17:03. Edited 1 time in total.

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My vintage rigs:
Fujitsu Lifebook E330 - Working w/ Win95
Fujitsu Lifebook C352 - Nonworking 🙁
HP Pavilion A520N - Working w/ WinXP
AST Ascentia M 5260X - Working w/ WinME
IBM ThinkPad 770 - Working w/ Win2K

Reply 1 of 3, by BinaryDemon

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Does the vga output to external monitor work? If it does than you know it’s not a gpu issue. If you open it up take a look at the cable connecting lcd to motherboard, with many laptops if you noticed display flicker when opening / closing lid often times this cable is being slowly damaged.

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Reply 2 of 3, by dickkickem

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BinaryDemon wrote:

Does the vga output to external monitor work? If it does than you know it’s not a gpu issue. If you open it up take a look at the cable connecting lcd to motherboard, with many laptops if you noticed display flicker when opening / closing lid often times this cable is being slowly damaged.

Yeah I tried the external monitor thing through VGA and it didn't work.

Also said cable you are talking about seemed pretty new looking to me. IDK if it's damaged or not.

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My vintage rigs:
Fujitsu Lifebook E330 - Working w/ Win95
Fujitsu Lifebook C352 - Nonworking 🙁
HP Pavilion A520N - Working w/ WinXP
AST Ascentia M 5260X - Working w/ WinME
IBM ThinkPad 770 - Working w/ Win2K

Reply 3 of 3, by dickkickem

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bump

Update: Also I completely disfigured my C352 and tried to see if anything bad happened to it, and the internals looked completely mint, not even a speck of dust inside. Nothing corroded, nothing broken, everything was fine. Under the keyboard, there is no RAM at all (did not see any extra ram throughout the laptop), but I put my E330's RAM inside (uses the exact same RAM with same FSB and everything) and it had no effect, and the screen was still blank. Like again, I plugged in an external monitor, did Fn+F10 (the combo used for Fujitsu laptops) and nothing popped up.

IDK what's going on, is this a GPU problem of some sort?

Also, would one of these babies allow me to still use my laptop? https://www.ebay.com/itm/VILLAGE-VT-Book-Note … id=282241198488 Apparently it acts as its own GPU.

DOS game collection
YouTube
Instagram

My vintage rigs:
Fujitsu Lifebook E330 - Working w/ Win95
Fujitsu Lifebook C352 - Nonworking 🙁
HP Pavilion A520N - Working w/ WinXP
AST Ascentia M 5260X - Working w/ WinME
IBM ThinkPad 770 - Working w/ Win2K