[Kevin Sevcik]

There's only 2 possibilities, really. You'll need a seperate monitor to troubleshoot this. Hook the monitor up to the laptop instead of the projector. The possibilities:

1. Your laptop stops putting out a signal for some reason. If this is the case, The monitor will go black and stay black at the same point your projector does. If this happens, try re-enabling VGA output on your laptop. This is usually the Fn key and a key that says CRT/LCD or looks like two monitors with a slash.

2. Your laptop is putting out a signal/resolution that the projector doesn't like. If this is the case, the monitor will probably work fine. There might be a menu on the monitor somewhere to tell exactly what it is, but it doesn't really matter. If this happens, you need to lower your resolution. Start up your laptop seperate from the projector, and set the resolution at 800x600 to start. Connect to the projector and do the Fn thing above. If nothing comes up, try restarting. If still nothing, then I'm stumped. If it comes up, try bumping the resolution up to 1024x768. This is almost definitely the max you'll be able to do.

There ya go. My best shot at fixing your problem. FYI, the problem is probably #2