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Hdmi display setting on tv with a broken macboo...

Okay guys, so the screen broke on my macbook pro the other day, it went completely black. I am a broke college student and have to save up to pay for it to be fixed, so in the meantime, I bought an hdmi adapter to connect my computer to my tv so I can still do my homework and use my computer. The problem is like many others, I can only see my background on the tv and nothing else. I've perused different discussions and understand that I need to select the appropriate display settings to make everything appear on the tv, but I can't do that because I can't see anything on my computer screen. What do I do??? I have two online classes that have special downloaded programs that I won't be allowed to download on a public computer in order to do my class work. Eerk... Very frustrated. I have a Mac OS X but not sure which specific operating system I am running, I bought the computer new in 2008.

Try Command F1.

Hi there Rcwaldrup,

If you have an external mouse and keyboard, you may have better results by trying closed clamshell mode. Take a look at the article below for more information.

Mac notebooks: How to use your computer in closed clamshell (display closed) mode with an external display

https://support.apple.com/kb/ht3131

-Griff W

Try Command F1.

This worked great! Thank you so much!! :)

You're welcome. Glad that did it.

Didn’t do a thing.

最後更新：2017-11-18 07:17:56

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