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Question

Two laptops, one broken, use the other as a monitor?

Aug 7, 2016 8:46AM PDT

Hi,

I have a laptop which switches on as normal but the screen is permanently blank. Would it be possible to connect my other laptop to it and use it as a monitor instead of using a proper PC monitor?

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Sorry no.
Aug 7, 2016 9:50AM PDT

Very few laptops had a video input jack and over 2 decades I only found one person retrofit a laptop to be a monitor. So, nope.

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Aug 7, 2016 10:24AM PDT

Thanks for your help.