Black video display - Gateway Solo 2200
My wife received a cast-off Gateway Solo 2200 laptop without a power cord.
It came with two batteries, floppy drive, CD drive, and master 2G hard drive.
She bought a new power adapter. but we cannot get a picture on the screen.
We tried using an external monitor (pressing Fn+LCD/CRT) with no difference.
The system seems to respond to commands (I booted up an old DOS disk).
I failed to open it (to check for loose cables, and to reseat any loose chips).
I cannot see to change the BIOS settings (to enable booting the Linux CD).
Any idea what to try next, or should we just return the power adapter?
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