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Thanks chuck.
So ive got my vga monitor out of the loft and it already has one of those cables (note to self: always check before you buy things !!!)
Ive plugged it in, fired the lappy up and even after pressing FN and F5 together, nothing's happened.
Ive had a look around and some people mention that i might have to go in to some of the settings and choose "use both screens" or something like that....but that's not a lot of good when i can't see the lappy screen.
Anything else to try before something gets thrown across the room !!!!!!
Ta muchly