Many thanks in advance.
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Maybe there's no signal getting to the monitor. Did you try hooking the monitor up directly to the Sony's VGA port?
Maybe Obama's Steve Jobs Bill might help. Of course there's always unemployment funds!
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Try shutting everything down, disconnect all the goo and try it without the docking station. It could have something to do with the profile that is used when the docking station is attached.
Ensure that the Vaio laptop's monitor is working
if the screen is black that means your internal video card is hosed and you need a new lap top.
Then like the other guy said try hooking up the lap top directly to the monitor
If that works its probably your docking station. I have a Vaio also but I not ever used a docking stations with it. To check the docking station you need extra VGA cables that are good. If swapping the cables out does not fix it then you know for sure its the station and not the monitor.
First problem is the stupid VAIO. I have one of the sorry pieces of poo poo and like to have never got the monitor port to work.
However in your case sounds like you probably have a problem with your external monitor. Hopefully your VAIO does not makes noises like it has a dozen rats scurrying around inside it when you move the screen.
Is the setting for your screen display correct? If it is not the screen will go sleep. From safe mode click on help and support and search for display or screen setting check out screen resolution and see if it is correct. you can also get there from graphic display, screen setting.
Long Shot....Could it be a bad port?
Your laptop monitor is working?
Has the attached monitor ever worked with this setup?
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Make sure the external monitor cable is plugged into the VGA port on the laptop, of course.
For WinXP, right click on the main screen (laptop).
You should see a little box menu that allows you to select ‘screen’ options.
Selection the one for Graphic display.
That should open an attached sub menu.
Select Output to... [sub menu]
Select Dual Display Clone [sub menu] [or similar wording]
Select Notebook + Monitor [do not select Monitor]
Have you tried pushing Fn-F5 to see if the monitor config got mixed up and the laptop is no longer sharing its signal back to itself? I hope that makes sense. Toggle through the monitor configurations and see if the laptop is sharing its signal with the other monitor. Does restarting the computer do anything and did you adjust the power settings to put the monitor to sleep for a longer period?
OK, step away from the computer and call the FBI... Someone has hacked your computer... LOL
have you tried troubleshooting your system?
Some LCD monitors will go black if they can’t support the resolution.