Need Help! Macbook

[Eirik1201]

So i have a MacBook with a broken displau, which has been broken for a couple of years and i kinda figured out i wanted to use it again, so can i get some help on how to use it? i hooked it up to a mac cinema HD Display and tried to press F7 as many other forums has suggested, but it did not work. So i ask for your help to bring back my macbook to life. Picture related, not mine but it is pretty much how it looks like.

 

[simsaladimbamba]

Did you try Fn+F7?

 

[Eirik1201]

Did you try Fn+F7?

Yes... that did not work.

 

[simsaladimbamba]

What adapter do you use to connect the display to the Mac?

 

[Eirik1201]

What adapter do you use to connect the display to the Mac?

Firewire, but is that really a display wire. good god i am such a n00b.

 

[simsaladimbamba]

Firewire, but is that really a display wire. good god i am such a n00b.

Firewire is an interface to transmit data like files and such, though it is used to transmit video from a DV tape in a DV camcorder to a computer, or to transmit video to a DV camcorder.
But it will not work to transmit video to an external display. Depending on what display you have:

Mini DVI

Mini DVI is a digital common interface on the later G4 12" PowerBook, on Intel iMacs till 2009 and on the white and black pre-Unibody MacBooks and on Intel Mac minis before they changed the design to Unibody.

Mini DVI adapters can be bought online from:

Mini DVI to VGA adapter from Apple
Mini DVI to Video (Composite and S-Video) adapter from Apple
Mini DVI to DVI adapter from Apple

Mini DVI to VGA adapter from Monoprice
Mini DVI to HDMI adapter from Monoprice
Mini DVI to DVI adapter from Monoprice
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Also of interest: "Mini DVI, what it is and how to capture it"
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Most common video interfaces on external computer displays and TVs

Common video interfaces on Macs and the appropriate adapters to connect to other display devices
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