While browsing a few websites on my laptop my external monitor that I'm connected to decided to unexpectedly shut off (It's a Dell monitor so it went into 'Power save mode') and from that point on my VGA connection no longer works. I attempted with different VGA cables to no avail, then attempted with a TV screen which presented me with 'No signal'. I then attempted to use an HDMI cable on my TV screen which worked just fine which leads me to believe this is could be problem with my VGA port.
Now upon connecting my VGA cable from my Dell monitor to my laptop the monitor shuts off (enters 'Power save mode'), I see the monitor in my screen options as 'Dell E228WFP' which means it can clearly detect the screen however nothing is being displayed, I've tried 'Duplicate screen', 'Extend screen', and even 'Show desktop only on 2', but still nothing is displayed on the monitor (I've tried all of these on both my Dell monitor and my TV screen).
Unfortunately it is necessary that I'm able to use the VGA connection as my laptop screen is greatly damaged and as such I can only see about one quater of my screen, and just my luck that my monitor has a VGA port but unfortunately no HDMI port.
Specifications
Manufacturer: Samsung
Model: NP270E5E-X01AU
Operating System: Windows 8.1
CPU: Intel Core i5-3230M
GPU01 (Integrated): Intel HD Graphics 4000 (Driver version 10.18.10.3621 16/05/2014)
GPU02 (Dedicated): NVIDIA GeForce 710M
10.18.xx.xxxx
but I know Intel recently released the15.33.22.64.3621
update. Leave it to Intel to have two versions for the samething