Ghost external VGA display hack

posted Apr 26th 2008 11:03pm by Will O'Brien
filed under: laptops hacks, misc hacks


Certain OS installers cough*osx*cough don’t like the on-board displays on some machines. [Ziddan] posted a paperclip based work around for them on the eeeuser forums (originally posted by [mugan] on insanelymac). Apparently by shorting the pins, the video card will report that there is an unknown external display attached.

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