I have an HP G60 laptop. It's about 8 years old. Last year, the CCFL tube or inverter failed (I would see a black spot appear on the bottom right corner of the screen, which felt very hot, and eventually the screen would go black). Not long after that, it would only stay on for a few seconds before the screen went black, but the computer would remain on. This is the state that the laptop remains in as of now.
In the past, I've successfully plugged an external monitor into the laptops VGA port and transferred display to the other screen. This was about a year ago. Now, I'm attempting to do it again with a different monitor, but it doesn't work. I plug the monitor into my laptop (using my VGA cable), and then I press the fn + F4 key, which is the shortcut to switch the display on this laptop, but nothing happens. The external monitor's indicator light simply blinks, meaning it detects no output I suppose.
Both the VGA cable and the monitor are fine. I know because they were both connected to another computer as early as a month ago. Also, the monitor claims to be receiving the signal from my laptop when it's connected, it just doesn't detect any output on the screen. How should I proceed with troubleshooting this?
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