csn_pilot Posted May 3, 2009 Share Posted May 3, 2009 When I boot up with my lid closed on my Inspiron E1505 or the internal monitor cable disconnected, both with my 22 inch External screen driven by VGA, it gets past the BIOS, bootloader, spinner with apple logo against grey background, and then finally hangs at the blue screen, where the login window usually comes up. I can see my mouse in the top left and can move it around, but if I change the volume, nothing happens. Sometimes, I also see the spinning BeachBall. I used Sonotone's Dell Laptops Post Installer to install the driver for the GMA 950, which also causes the screen to keep sleeping on and off at the login window. Could this be the problem? I use this laptop mainly as a desktop, with the lid closed, and I'd like to be able to use it in clamshell mode, which requires either going to sleep and waking up with external keyboard and mouse, or starting up with lid closed. I can't go to sleep with the E1505, so I have to try the second method. Is there anything I can do to fix this, and still have a working internal monitor in case I need to use the laptop without the external screen? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/164863-booting-with-laptop-lid-closed-external-monitor-causes-hang/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
csn_pilot Posted May 4, 2009 Author Share Posted May 4, 2009 Anyone? This is the same to the OS as booting up with only one monitor plugged in: the external one. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/164863-booting-with-laptop-lid-closed-external-monitor-causes-hang/#findComment-1148238 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cg_ai4 Posted May 4, 2009 Share Posted May 4, 2009 you should try the paper clip method(look on the link bellow) i had the same problem as you i had to plug in an external monitor until i tried the paper clip method and booted into my profile.after dat i used the X86Tools and checked for the drivers for my laptop(Dell D520 iDeneb v1.4)and i found out the my laptop uses the GMA945 and not 950 kext that were installed.if you have the audio working at the time you are using the X86Tools a window its going to popout asking you for what kext you want for the audio just press cancel because you only need the video kext and it is the first one to be detected on the X86Tools....click on download & install button and it will do the job for you.now take off the paper clip and hopefully when you reboot your laptop you won't be needing the paper clip. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/uploads/p...-1160846022.gif Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/164863-booting-with-laptop-lid-closed-external-monitor-causes-hang/#findComment-1148412 Share on other sites More sharing options...
csn_pilot Posted May 5, 2009 Author Share Posted May 5, 2009 you should try the paper clip method(look on the link bellow) i had the same problem as you i had to plug in an external monitor until i tried the paper clip method and booted into my profile.after dat i used the X86Tools and checked for the drivers for my laptop(Dell D520 iDeneb v1.4)and i found out the my laptop uses the GMA945 and not 950 kext that were installed.if you have the audio working at the time you are using the X86Tools a window its going to popout asking you for what kext you want for the audio just press cancel because you only need the video kext and it is the first one to be detected on the X86Tools....click on download & install button and it will do the job for you.now take off the paper clip and hopefully when you reboot your laptop you won't be needing the paper clip.http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/uploads/p...-1160846022.gif Thanks, but actually, I already don't need the paper clip. I can boot up just fine without it, with only my laptop monitor and without the external monitor plugged in. The issue was just that I can't boot up with the lid closed on my laptop, because then, I have the hang problem. I am using the kext from Sonotone's post installer. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/164863-booting-with-laptop-lid-closed-external-monitor-causes-hang/#findComment-1149297 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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