I goofed and disabled the integrated graphics on my stock Alienware x51, thinking that was how I could force it to use the Nvidia card. Apparently not how that works. Obviously screen went black. I've gone over the common fixes pretty thoroughly. I use a tv as my only monitor, and I've tried switching between the three hdmi ports on it, and both the graphics card and motherboard ports.
I've opened her up, and disconnected the battery, as well as the standard cmos reset to try and reset the bios to default. I get no signal to the monitor whatsoever, so I can't boot in safe mode or access bios settings. The last thing I'm going to try next is move to another tv monitor that works for the other two computers, but I'm not holding my breath.
I'm at my wits end with this, but any sage advice would be appreciated. I don't want to have to take it into a shop to sort it out, because I'm usually quite handy at these things if I know what to do.
I've opened her up, and disconnected the battery, as well as the standard cmos reset to try and reset the bios to default. I get no signal to the monitor whatsoever, so I can't boot in safe mode or access bios settings. The last thing I'm going to try next is move to another tv monitor that works for the other two computers, but I'm not holding my breath.
I'm at my wits end with this, but any sage advice would be appreciated. I don't want to have to take it into a shop to sort it out, because I'm usually quite handy at these things if I know what to do.
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