Kingknight67 Posted September 26, 2009 CID Share Posted September 26, 2009 Earlier today it was working fine with no problems. Then i put it on standby. A few hours later, when I tried to start it up again, the screen doesn't display anything. Does anyone have any suggestions? Is it broken? I left it charging. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dn0 Posted September 27, 2009 CID Share Posted September 27, 2009 Have you force killed the laptop and re-started? (hold power button down for a few seconds until it shuts down) I have had a couple laptops do this when coming out of standby and always had to kill it and restart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wknight40 Posted September 27, 2009 CID Share Posted September 27, 2009 Rare occasions you may need to remove the battery with the power removed to clear. Again having to do this is rare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingknight67 Posted September 27, 2009 Author CID Share Posted September 27, 2009 What do you mean with the power removed? And I wish it was as simple as just restarting the laptop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted September 27, 2009 CID Share Posted September 27, 2009 What do you mean with the power removed? And I wish it was as simple as just restarting the laptop. I think he means to unplug the power cord. And like was already said , this is something that has plauged sleep / hibernation , for a while. if nothing works try logging in safe mode , then shut off sleep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fikester Posted September 27, 2009 CID Share Posted September 27, 2009 Earlier today it was working fine with no problems. Then i put it on standby. A few hours later, when I tried to start it up again, the screen doesn't display anything. Does anyone have any suggestions? Is it broken? I left it charging. This happended to my XPS1710....all three incidents Dell replaced the video card 3x and the motherboard once? mine worked fine then black screen all three times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sinister666 Posted September 28, 2009 CID Share Posted September 28, 2009 i had a toshiba satalite laptop that did the same thing, would not show anything on the screen when powered on...the owner thought it was dead. after some looking around, i found that one of the ram slots is bad. try pulling one stick of ram out at a time and starting the machine, if it starts with one in and one out, then you have a bad ram slot or a bad ram stick. and i also have an hp laptop here, same thing, no screen on startup. this one i cant easily remedy. after some looking around, i found that there is a recall on this hp/nvidea chipset. junk die on the gpu. i think its like an instant over heat issue on the hp with the nvidea graphics built in. there is a recall, but it just so happens that this one doesnt fit in to their recall, hp wants to charge 260 bucks to repair, plus the cost of shipping to and from hp. so, unless i can find another mother board for under 250, then im afraid im gonna have to tell the owner he has to send it to hp and pay what they are asking for repair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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