Notebook turns on but monitor would not show any image
I have a Toshiba Satellite notebook. Recently, and for no apparent reason, when I pushed the power button to turn on my notebook, the computer would turn on, but the monitor would not show any image or even any sign of light (doesn’t even light up). Is this possibly a driver issue, or will I have to get a new monitor.
No, it’s not a driver issue because this problem occurs as soon as you start the notebook, even before Windows (and drivers) start loading.
First, you’ll have to test your notebook with an external monitor attached to the VGA port on the side of your notebook. If both internal and external monitors have no image, this problem is not related to the notebook screen.
That could be memory related problem. Try reconnecting the memory module. If you have two modules installed, remove them one by one and test the laptop with each module separately. It’s possible that one of the memory modules is bad and your notebook will start as soon as you remove bad RAM.
August 14th, 2008 at 10:28 am
I replaced lcd monitor in my dell laptop, old one is broken but screen lits up, the new one turns on for a while but then screen goes very faint. In a similar situation you suggested changing inverter, but since the inverter works fine with old broken LCD, what else could be the issue ?
August 14th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
HP dv9500t, nvidia geforce 8600m gs, Vista Ultimate
One day after plugging in an external monitor in the VGA port, Windows (seems to) defaults to an external display when there isn’t one connected, and the laptop display doesn’t even come on. I wondered at first if it was a driver issue, but it doesn’t even come on during boot-up. I can plug in the external and it immediately works during boot. Then when Windows starts, I can go in and change the display settings/nvidia control panel to start using the laptop display, but even then sometimes the software is buggy (doesn’t want to display in the native res). When I finally do get it to display in the native resolution, it runs fine until I restart/shut down (as long as I don’t restart Windows it’s fine. No problems during hibernation.) Thanks.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:41 am
I have a compaq laptop and while I am on the screen at times slowly fades away and turns whiteish.I then have to turn power off and restart it then its ok.
August 15th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
OK, I jsut replaced the fan on a tosh tecra 9100, and when I restart the screen did not come one, so I opened it back and there was a wire lose at the front, it has an end like the antena ones at the wireless card, but I can not fin a place at the front pannel to conenc it
anyone.. has an image or knows what this is and where it goes. it will be a life saver.
August 15th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Imad,
Is it brown cable? It’s antenna for the Bluetooth card (not all laptops have this card installed).
Did you remove the CPU? Make sure it’s seated properly.
Check memory modules, reseat them just in case.
August 15th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Naseer Tahir,
Could be defective backlight (CCFL) lamp inside the new LCD screen. Here’s what you can try. Connect the video cable to the old LCD screen but do not plug it into the inverter, plug the new screen instead.
In this case the data signal will go to the old screen but power from the inverter to the new screen. If the backlight on the new screen still work intermittently, most likely it’s bad backlight lamp.
Also, make sure both LCD screen compatible. Maybe the new screen requires a different inverter board.
August 15th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
bruno,
Sound like a problem with the LCD screen. Test your laptop with an external monitor. If external video output works properly, I think you have a problem with the laptop screen.
Also, just in case, I would check connection between the video cable and LCD screen and reconnect the cable. Maybe it’s not making good connection with the screen.
August 15th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
T.J.
Try using Fn+F4 keys (to switch video output) when the laptop starts. Check the BIOS setup menu, maybe you can set the primary monitor in there.
August 15th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
I had similar problem to T.J, it happend when I installed a new video card driver in my laptop but at that time external monitor was connected. I had to uninstall the video card driver and install it with LCD screen connected instead of VGA monitor.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Thanks for the tip, really appreciate your help.
I tried what you suggested, this way new screen stay lit, so does that prove its a bad or incompatible inverter ?
August 16th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Fn+F4 doesn’t work because until I go into “display settings” the computer doesn’t recognize that the internal laptop monitor is even there. This is apparently the base of the problem: the internal monitor is never autodetected at any point from the time i turn on the computer, to when Windows boots…not until i plug in the external monitor and manually change it to “extend my desktop” and “primary monitor” under Display settings.
Bios also does not have any options dealing with monitors. So far, I’ve disabled the driver, I’ve booted in Safe Mode with Windows’ own standard driver, I’ve reverted back to the original version of the driver, I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled the current/latest driver…nothing has solved the problem of the display not being autodected.
August 24th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
I’m trying to repair a Dell Inspiron 1100 that was found in a friends apartment. I bought another broken Inspiron 1100 being sold for parts and proceeded to swap stuff out until VOILA I had a working laptop. I then proceeded to try to find what I needed to have two working laptops, and somewhere in the process I have lost display in the first one. I’ve been switching parts around and I’m a little confused about what is what at this point. I’ve tried switching the RAM around and this has not done it. I’m a little worried that I (might) have fried something because I am working on carpet (its Florida the humidity is in the 90s) but nonetheless it still doesn’t work! Any suggestions?
August 27th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
i have toshiba qosmio e15-av101 laptop—when i turn the computer –i get the message –’computer is starting,—and than it freezes–????—i suspecte something to do with bios
August 28th, 2008 at 10:01 am
Found the problem…..bent pin in the processor. Took it out, straightened the pin and all works now. I feel like a jeenyus.
August 29th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Hi!
I need help!
I did have a little accident with my computer and the screen is broken.
In the beginning with the broken screen,i can see a blue screen color with few letters.
After few times i tryed to turn it on and nothing on the screen at all but my computer still runing.
I decide to change the screen and still the same nothing on the screen at all.
I also plug my computer with an external monitor still the same problem.
Please,could you help me what i have to do know.
Sam,thanks!
August 30th, 2008 at 6:53 am
I recently went out of town on business and when I came back i tried to get on my Dell Inspirion 6000 and I opened it up and hit the power button the display lit up for about half a second and went off. The computer appears to continue booting up and running but there is nothing on the screen. It worked just fine when i shut it down before i left and four days later this is what it is doing?
September 4th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
My HP widescreen had the same kind of problem. Yesterday, it was running perfectly fine. When I come back from school, though, I sit down, turn it on, and the screen’s just totally blank. I wait a few seconds, it turns off. Try pressing the power button again, this time it stays on a bit longer. The strange thing was, though, was that when I pressed any button on the keyboard while it was off, it would seem to power back up again.
September 5th, 2008 at 10:49 am
Hello guys, I hope you can help me to solve this…
I have an Acer Aspire 9300 series ( unfortunately I can’t tell the exact model since the notebook is still at the useless technician…) for over a year now, so warranty just expired. Additionally I am on a caribbean island but bought the notebook in Europe, so no good cards at all.
Due to viruses and trojans AND a replacement of my harddrive (needed one with more space) I wanted to completely setup my notebook freshly. Unfortunately the bought harddrive was the wrong one, so I had to put in the old one again. Up to this point it still booted normally.
Then I wanted to reset the notebook to the factory settings, with a shortcut (I think it was Alt+F11, not sure anymore, forgot it). This worked fine too, system told me that the reset finished and that I have to reboot. After that reboot nothing happened, the screen stayed blank, but I could hear some music which I suppose and remembered is the welcome movie of the Aspire. But no display. I rebooted again and again, nothing except 3 beeps, screen still blank. The music didn’t come anymore too. Rebooted hundreds of time, sometimes the beeps didn’t occur, but most of the times they did.
I tried then to connect an external monitor, but nothing on that one too.
Tried to take out the harddrive, put back in, nothing.
Went to technician here, he did the same, external monitor – nothing. Changed memory – nothing. He then told me he will open the notebook and check the display cord, days later he said it was OK and he can’t do anything, I should call Acer. Most probably the motherboard.
The only thing is that it always sounded like it boots normally, lights showed up like it is booting, cd-rom worked when I checked it. It opened and upon closing I could hear it spinning. So can it really be that the video card or motherboard is dead??
I will go to town tomorrow to get back my poor notebook, and I hope you guys can give me some advice whatelse to do?
Thanks a lot in advance!!
September 8th, 2008 at 11:33 am
I had this exact problem with the same machine:
“I have a Toshiba Satellite notebook. Recently, and for no apparent reason, when I pushed the power button to turn on my notebook, the computer would turn on, but the monitor would not show any image or even any sign of light (doesn’t even light up).”
So I decided to re-open it to check if I forgot to plug something in. Once I made sure everything was plugged in (even a 1 inch white plug near the power supply that is so hard to reach and which I think I forgot the first time). But now, when I plug the computer in, the lights at the front turn on normally but when I press the power button, nothing happens and I mean nothing at all. The machine doesn’t turn on, the light on the power button doesn’t turn on…nothing..
So I reopened it again but everything seem fine…
What to look for?
September 9th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
Hey All,
I’m working on an HP DV5000 which has a strange display problem in that if you remove the back cover of the lcd (the top of the laptop), and the lcd screen is only attached by the cables and hinges, it works fine. The minute you re-assemble the cover, the display no longer functions. It must be shorting out somewhere, but where?
Any help would be most appreciated.
Thanks,
Jim
September 9th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Jim Walenciak,
Let’s say the screen is only attached by the cables. Can you make it fail if you torque the screen? It’s possible that there is bad solder joint somewhere on the LCD controller board (circuit board on the back). When you install the back cover, you flex the LCD circuit board and because of that it fails. This is just a guess.
Also, take a closer look at the video cable. Maybe the cable cover is damaged and there are internal wires exposed?
September 9th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
Ok. That sounds right. Thinking back, I can remember 3 other notebooks, a Dell D800 and a Tosh M55 & 2515 maybe?, anyway, they had the same scenario; works great till you actually put it all together, then no screen. I’ll inspect for these items and get back to you.
Thanks so much for your help. It’s appreciated.
Jim
September 11th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Ok, check this out.
LEaving the lcd attached only by the hinge assembly and the cables, I started to load the OS,mostly to see if it would run for any length of time. It lasted 8 minutes before the whole thing shut down.
Heat sink/fan are clear. Any ideas. This unit belongs to the wife of one of our military guys overseas; I hate to let it kick my butt.
Thanks again for your help.
Jim
September 11th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Jim,
1. Can you hear the fan spinning? Could be dead fan.
2. Run memory test. I use Memtest86+. Could be bad memory.
3. Run hard drive test. I use Hitachi drive fitness test.
Will it shut down while testing memory and hard drive?
September 16th, 2008 at 6:42 am
As it says above, this is important. I really need to resolve this issue this week so that it does not prevent me from taking my law school exams on my laptop.
Last night I accidentally spilled a small amount of coffee on my laptop (I’d say about a tablespoon). It’s a Dell Studio 1535 (which I can’t seem to find much info on since it’s relatively new). Dell customer support was no help since it’s not covered under the warranty I have; Dell’s website was practically worthless. So, after reading a few how-to’s online, my dad and I decided to disassemble my laptop to see if any coffee had spilled inside (my dad also used to build computers, so we mostly knew what we were doing).
I pulled off the back cover plate, no coffee inside, or at least it hadn’t leaked all the way into the motherboard and all that. I primarily spilled the coffee onto the speaker panel. I also have a few sticky keys, but from what I understand, being a membrane-type keyboard, it would be inadvisable if not impossible to remove these and clean under them. Anyway, I removed the front cover plate of the speaker panel gently and found no coffee. However, after reassembling everything and letting it dry out over night upside down, now when I turn it on, I have no visual. Is it possible that the display data cable/ribbon got torn? How would I tell? It appears to be intact.
Computer works just fine with external monitor, so I’m wondering if I just fried the display panel. In any case, what’s the best way to go about fixing/replacing this? How much is it likely to cost me?
Thanks, I appreciate it!
September 17th, 2008 at 11:53 am
I have a Toshiba Sattellite A105-S4334 and the lcd screen is so dark you can barely see an image. I was able to change the brightness settings all the way down to -60 with the intel video wizard and I can see everything but the colors are screwed up and focus is not too good.
When I boot the screen is readable with a grayish background instead of blue.
Could this be the inverter or lcd screen?
All looks good on external monitor.
Thanks for your time.
September 17th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
I have a similar problem, but with some differences. My laptop’s (Asus G1) screen lights up but displays no image, only gray. I have attached an external monitor but the screen is cluttered with random ascii characters before vista loads. Vista will only boot in safe mode now and run on my external monitor with the lowest possible resolution and lowest quality color and there are columns of pink lines across the screen.
Disk defrag will not load up at all; I click on the program and nothing happens. IE and Firefox will not run longer than a minute as Vista’s Data Execution Prevention (DEP) feature will shut them down. I have swapped memory modules in and out with no change in behavior. I was able to run a full virus scan however with Symantec Endpoint Protection.
During the last couple weeks I have had perhaps two occurrences of my laptop being unable to wake properly from Sleep. This morning I got a BSOD error and a screen jumbled with colors and the same pink columns. I immediately rebooted and everything worked fine. I shut the computer down and came back to it later in the day to find this problem I have described. My 2-year-old daughter was playing with the power strip the laptop is plugged into by turning it off and on, but I’m not sure if it’s relevant.
Please help!
September 17th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
My Toshiba Sattelite P105-S6084 will power on and run. The LCD portion of the screen is working fine, but the lighting will only stay on for about 5 seconds and then shuts off again. I have broken it open, as I thought that it was a screen close button problem, but that will power the display up for 5 seconds again and again. I think it is an LCD inverter problem but don’t know how to diagnose. Any comments?
September 18th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
Charlie,
If the backlight inside the screen lights up when you turn on the laptop, it’s not related to the inverter.
You said that colors are screwed up and out of focus, and that sounds like a problem with the LCD.
September 26th, 2008 at 9:13 am
I have a compaq presario V2000. the computer turns on fine and works perfectly. But after usually 30 minutes of use the screen goes blank. I still see that the backlight is on but there is no image. I tried pluggin in an external monitor and pressed the functoion key but the screen says there is no signal. I reseated the memory with no result. I did the some troubleshooting to make sure it wasn’t the inverter or the screen itself they were all unsuccesful. Since restating is the only option thats what i do, but after 30 minutes or so the screen goes blank again. I’m thinking video card problem. help please?
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:54 am
i have a hp pavilion ze2000. i recently just had to wipe it and re format it. meaning i had to put windows xp back on. but i had my laptop sitting on my bed all day, it was on and it was closed. when i went to use it later that night. my laptop was really hot cause it was sittin on my bed and i think the fan was blocked up so it couldnt cool its self down… but the screen was really dark. lookd like it had a screen saver up it was so dark. so i moved my touchpad.. nothing happened. so i turned it off and back on.. still nothing well later i noticed in certain light i can see the screen and my background all that like my computer is running smoothly i just can barly see anything. its very dark.. so what could it be?
October 11th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Hi, I have a Toshiba Satellite A15-S157 laptop. I recently (3 months ago) replaced the memory (1 gig), hard drive (80 gig), fan. All was working well until last week when my daughter said the screen was flickering for awhile and then went dark. You can still see the screen faintly. I can plug into an external monitor fine. I’m thinking the back lite is burt out. Another post suggested that I replace the LCD Harness. Do you have any suggestions of stuff for me to try without replacing the entire LCD? Would like to keep it for a spare if it’s not to expensive to fix.
Thanks, Jon
October 24th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
I have a similar conundrum. The Toshiba Satellite A105 started with a white screen now – nothing at all. I read to try pressing on the outer edges of the LCD screen – no change. I connected it to an external monitor and it worked great. When I unplugged the monitor and tried to go back to just the lcd screen, now I have nothing – black screen. I tried removing the battery and ac power and pressing the power button for a minute. After I put everything back, I turned it back on – still black. I removed the screws that held the top half of the laptop (kb, screen, touchpad, etc…) to the bottom to try to see where the screen connected to the main board. I removed and reseated the cable, verifying that there were no bent pins and everything lined up. When I put everything back together and tried turining it on – nothing – still black. I checked the cable again – no bent pins and everything was aligned – still black.
I know the problem could be the screen, the inverter, the cable or the mobo. Since I have a limited income and if I tried all 4, I would be at the cost of a new laptop. Can anyone help?
Any and all suggestions are welcomed!
Thanks in advance.
November 2nd, 2008 at 7:49 am
Hiii i have the same problem ¬¬
I have hp pavilion dv5000
And my screen is just blank and the power button does not light up
I really need some help asap!
Ive tried re-seating the ram
Switching around the memory modules and taking one out and leaving the other in and vice versa
I reallly need some help :/
thanks
November 5th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
T.J. Says
“Fn+F4 doesn’t work because until I go into “display settings” the computer doesn’t recognize that the internal laptop monitor is even there. This is apparently the base of the problem: the internal monitor is never autodetected at any point from the time i turn on the computer, to when Windows boots…not until i plug in the external monitor and manually change it to “extend my desktop” and “primary monitor” under Display settings.
Bios also does not have any options dealing with monitors. So far, I’ve disabled the driver, I’ve booted in Safe Mode with Windows’ own standard driver, I’ve reverted back to the original version of the driver, I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled the current/latest driver…nothing has solved the problem of the display not being autodected”
I am have the same problem! Though I have a Toshiba Satellite A100-St1042, Windows XP Pro Sp2, and nVidia Geforce Go 7300. Only the external monitor will show the boot-up, but once I get into Windows I can turn on the LCD display. Sometimes I have to restart a few times before it detects the LCD. When I get the LCD on, it will work fine (even restarting) until I turn off the laptop for a short period of time.
Could this be a memory problem? Or BIOS or even the screen itself?
Thanks =)
November 16th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
I have a Dell inspiron 6400 Laptop. One day I turned it on and the screen is black. If I hook it up to an external monitor I am able to use my computer as usual.
Any ideas as to what the problem could be. I would appreciate any advice.
Thanks Susan
November 22nd, 2008 at 9:37 am
Hello, I have a Sony vaio VGN FE770G. yesterday i pluged in s-video from my laptop to TV and the display on my laptop went blank..and nothin appeared on the Tv as well…i restarted the laptop after removing the s-video. The laptop starts and teh screen displays till the windows loading screen and then the display goes blank again. the HDD is working becasuse i can hear the soud of my screen saver after 5 min. please help.
November 22nd, 2008 at 9:33 pm
I have an HP Pavilion zt3000. Recently out of the blue i’ve begun having problems.
When booting my computer my screen no longer powers up. All the lights work but the screen is just black.
Funciton F4 works ONLY sometimes. I can’t figure out why. Also, when I shut the computer down, only my screen goes off and all the lights stay on, I have to hold the power button for 10 seconds so that the do go off. I have recently installed the graphics driver but it hasn’t helped..
Any ideas ? Thanks
November 26th, 2008 at 9:33 am
Hello LaptopFreak:
I am having a similar problem as all fo the people above, with a few differences. I am running Win XP on an HP Pavilion zv5000 notebook. I have hooked the laptop to my TV on many occassions to watch videos that are store on the laptop. This has never been a problem. A week or so ago my boyfriend picked up the Micro AV virus onto the laptop. At one point Mozilla crashed and he went to reboot the laptop. The laptop didn’t shut down right away, there was some hung process. When the laptop did shut down (it wasn’t connected to the TV at this point, but had been earlier in the week) we rebooted it and the internal LCD screen was completely black during boot up. All buttons light up, hard drive is spinning, Windows music plays, but no image on the monitor. We hooked it to the TV, and there was my desktop. Since then I have cleaned the virus, however, I still cannot view my desktop without hooking my laptop to an external monitor. We have tried shining a flashlight onto the black LCD laptop monitor, but we cannot see any faint images or anything that would give us the indication that the backlight is bad.
Also…when I go into Display Properties and click on the settings tab, there are two monitors that appear. Monitor 1 (the external) is set to primary (both boxes “use this device as the primary monitor” and Extend my Windows desktop on this monitor” are checked and greyed out. When I click on the second monitor (2), which is my internal laptop monitor, “use this device as my primary monitor” is greyed out and unchecked. The other box is unchecked but checkable. When I try to make the internal monitor “attached” and extend it to my windows desktop, it acts like it’s trying to do this, but nothing happens, nothing appears on the laptop screen. I’ve also tried switching the posistions of the 1 and 2 monitors, and it tells me that the internal monitor is not enabled. I click yes to enable it, again teh external monitor flashes like it’s trying to do something, but nothing shows up on the laptop screen.
I don’t know if something possibly got set by the virus that is causing this. Or…if the LCD is bad? ANY help would be GREATLY appreciated. I’ve reinstalled the ATI driver (my video driver is ATI radeon 90001GP), I’ve tried many times to switch the primary monitor, but I cannot get the “us this device as the primary display” to become “ungrey”. Is there anything I can try? Is there some setting that got set in my registry possibly that is causing this? PLEASE HELP!!
Thanks in advance!
Megan
December 15th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
LaptopFreak,
I have an older model Sony Vaio laptop. Ive gotten the blue screen of death about once a day for the last 3 weeks, the technician i took it to has no idea how to fix it. Well last night i tried to turn my laptop back on after a blue fatal screen and it started the bootup like normal but after the windows xp loading screen the blue scrren never appears. the arrow for the mouse shows on a completely black screen. I tried to reboot my laptop in safemode but it only shows a black screen with the white lettering along the tops and bottom like in safemode. I dont understand why i cannot see my desktop or even the blue windows startup screens. Please help!!!!
December 17th, 2008 at 10:50 am
I have a Toshiba L20/25 and I left it running on my bed for about 2 hours. When i returned the screen was black and I had to power it back on. After powering it on, windows xp started but it would display my back screen with icons…it shows a dark blue screen with the pointer on it, but nothing else. I have removed the battery and also connected it to another monitor…however, it still does not show my screen from my laptop. Also, my fan is not turning. What could be the issue? My computer is about 3 years old.
December 17th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
I have the same problem. It started when I opened my Toshiba laptop from hibernation mode like I always do. Then after a few seconds from opening it, I inserted my USB flash drive when suddenly it hanged (my USB flash drive had no virus), it was frozen for a couple of minutes, even the mouse pointer won’t move, so I pressed the power button to reset it but still, nothing happened. And so i removed the plug and the battery and placed it back and turned it on, and that’s when the problem started. The power lights are on, the fan is running, the DVD drive is spinning when i inserted a cd, the HDD, numlock, and capslock indicator lighted when i pressed the power switch, but the screen is blank – no lights, no faint image. Also, when I tried to turn on the WiFi switch, the wifi light indicator won’t turn on. Even the inserted USB optical mouse won’t light up. I tried waiting for a couple of minutes but nothing happens, even the sound during Windows login won’t come up. What could be the problem? Is it the LCD screen? A hard drive error? Or what? Please help me. It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
December 19th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
A friend has asked me to look at her Toshiba PSL10A laptop which she uses in conjunction with a VGA projector.
This machine had worked fine with the projector until recently. When a projector or external monitor is connected, they will not display.
I have updated to latest Intel driver and software, still no luck. However, if I check the properties with no external monitor connected, the software only shows information regarding laptop screen. If I connect an external monitor (LCD or CRT) the Intel software detects the external monitor and then shows the properties tabs for the external device, but no matter what I try, Hotkeys or property settings, I cannot get external monitor to display desktop.
This would suggest that external monitor is detected.
Have you any ideas please?
December 30th, 2008 at 9:38 am
I have a Toshiba Satellite P205D-S8802 that powers up fine. I get to the log on screen and after I’ve logged on the only thing that shows up is the mouse pointer. I can move the mouse but the background is completely black. All this happened after my daugther used the installed webcam for the first time. I removed the battery and tried rebooting but get the same thing. Any suggestions?
December 30th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
I presume you have MS Vista installed. I have seen a couple of instances of this occurring with Vista, which has meant one of two things, either the the Vista installation was from a pirated disc (true in on case) or the Vista installation had not been activated within the first 30 days (true in another case).
In the case of the pirated installation, that was an easy fix, I told the owner to buy a legit copy and reinstall.
In the case of the legit installation that timed out, that was fixed with a repair installation.
This has become known as the “Vista black screen of death”. Google it and you will find others have suffered the same fate.
With laptops that come with OEM Vista installations, it is unlikely that the install is pirated, so it may be one of the many other options.
If you have the original install disc, or a repair option from recovery partition, that may be the way to go.
Best of luck
January 4th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
I have dell inspiron 6000 PC, i recently upgraded the RAM from 512 MB to 2 GB. it was working fine for about 3 days but after that i faced a problem that when i power on the laptop, there is no display but i could hear the boot up sound. I shutdown and started my laptop many times manually still no display but after keeping PC turned on for 20 mins, display came and it worked fine until i shut down the PC.
When i again started it in the morning, same problem occured. I tried replacing the old RAM also, still the same problem. Could anyone help me on this.
January 5th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
If i connect to external monitor i can see the display on external monitor
January 12th, 2009 at 10:10 am
I inherited a Dell Inspiron 8600 with a display problem. When I turn it on the LCD disply remains black. It sounds like it may be trying to a POST, but is unable to complete it (not sure though because I cannot see anything on the screen). I noticed a region on the display like a spot, about 1/4 the screen size, that is darker than the rest. When I gently touch an area near the spot, it expands to include the touched area.
I do not get an image when I attach an external monitor to the laptop (cycled through Fn-F8 a number of times). I also tried swapping the RAM sticks in and out to see if that did anything – does not appear to have any influence.
A computer consultant said it needed a new LCD screen, but since no image appears on an external monitor, perhaps there are some additional problems (video card)?
Any recommendations on what to do next to identify the problem would be most appreciated?
Tony
January 22nd, 2009 at 7:15 pm
I own a Toshiba Satellite A100 and have problems with the display. While using the laptop, the screen will go blank – I cannot see any display but there is light in the screen. If I shut the lid it will go hibernate at which I open the lid again and all is back to normal. It happens randomly, some days more often than others. Any help is appreciated!
February 1st, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Hey i have a compac laptop, and when i turn it on theres no image on my monitor. All other buttons ligth up and evrythin. When i press Ctrl Alt Delete, it wont restart. Any Help is Appreciated!!!
February 5th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
Hello, I have a Tosiba P100 17 inch laptop. It has Nvidia Geforce 7600 Go Videocard. The LCD screen went black few days ago, but the laptop is in working condition, LCD are working , ect. Was able to connect to external monitor via VGA port, got the picture, but it’s somewat corrupted, picture has a lot of pixellation. This is also repeated with another external LCD. I dissasembled it to chek connections, the video cable connection seems to be tight… What seems to be the problem? If this is screen , why I have pixellation on external monitor? Is it a videocard? Is it a motherboard?
Thanks
February 5th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Ilia Gur,
I have it’s bad video card. I posted your question with some suggestions here: Laptop screen went black. Picture on external screen has pixelation.
February 7th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
yes i recently purchased a Toshiba A215 on e-bay it was advertised as no vidieo hard drive or memory so i asked why no vidieo was it due to broken screen posible inverter or motherboard reply was screen was craked i asked if i installed hard drive memory and screen that it should be operable since i had those items when i recieved i installed hard drive and memory and hooked up external monitor. It appeared to begine boot process then fan shuts off after a 20-30 second period process repeats but fan will only run 10-15 seconds should that be enough time to use Fn f5 to toggle to external monitor? i also turned off reseated memory. removed hard drive and installed xp cd to see if i could get instalation screen but fan still cycles 10-15 second intervals.i am going to dissassemble clean and install a new coat of compound to fransfer heat to heatsink from cpu. I read an article that stated that laptops will not boot of heat was not transfered properly from cpu. The hard drive i attempting to use has vista installed but came out of a compaq f700 will that be an issue? any suggestions welcomed thanks Robert
February 8th, 2009 at 11:29 am
Robert,
Here’s how you can narrow down the problem. Remove the hard drive, DVD drive and other components you can access. Leave only main parts: motherboard, CPU with heat sink, known good memory module. Try turning it on this way. If the laptop still starts and shuts off/reboots on its own, there could be a problem with the motherboard.
You’ll find more info in this article:
Laptop is dead. How to troubleshoot the problem.
February 12th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
Hey
ok, i have a toshiba a200 with ati videocard
original problem was that there was a massive chunk of dust in the fan so i pulled the laptop apart to remove it.
PROBLEM SOLVED
NEW PROBLEM………..
put it all back together, everything is plugged in, all screws are where they should be but when i started it up
1.there is no response from the lcd not even a flicker of light on start up
2.the keyboard light flash as they would normally but it like the bios is hanging or posting a no display msg
3.there is nothing in the way of beeps or led errors(ive read about these)
4.ive tried connecting an external display via the hdmi,s-video and vga connections to no avail
5.i thought if it was a bios post that f1 would bypass it and i could switch to ext display via windows but it just hangs for some reason
PLEASE throw me ur ideas as i have tried EVERYTHING i can think of other than replacing the lcd
is it the lcd or the videocard???
plz help me
tyvm
March 13th, 2009 at 11:23 am
I am so glad I ran across this site. I purchased a used Presario V2000 which stopped working. I made sure everything was seated properly, however it still would not boot. I had no display at all with no ability to go into the BIOS. Once I took one of the two memory modules out, it booted right up.
Thanks to the author whom suggested to remove the memory modules!
March 13th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
Pls my compaq screen just went blank a view sec after booting but and d booting process continue but screen blank so I left it for a while then it work fine later when I switch it on back&it work for the whole day but this morning the same problem started again pls what do I do
March 14th, 2009 at 8:48 am
I have Toshiba Satellite A100-110. Screen started flickering, mainly while playing games. Next day the screen wouldn’t show any image. Backlight works fine, as well as inverter. Tried to connect another LCD screen – the problem remained. Changed screen video cable – didn’t help. All the wires seem to be fine – reseated them all twice. External screen works perfectly. The OS and BIOS detects laptop display, I can change all the settings on it, but it still doesn’t show anything. All the pins, both on motherboard output and screen input seem to be straight. What could be the problem???
March 14th, 2009 at 11:17 am
Dear Laptop Freak
I have a problem with my laptop (Acer Aspire 8930g) not showing an image but it usually happens when I restart the computer or comes back from sleep mode the only way to fix the problem seems to be to shut down the computer unplug the A/C adapter and plug it back in and then it seems to work fine I’m really not sure what the problem could be. any advice?
March 24th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Hi, i have a new toshiba satalite a200 core 2 duo / 3 gig ram, my problem is that i am getting a random black screen from time to time, this happens while using various apps from internet explorer to my dj software. When this happens the backlight is still on (clearly visable in a dark room. I thought i would try hooking it up to my desktop monitor when this happened the last time, to my suprise it worked fine, it had not crashed, clear image on the external monitor, black screen on the laptop display (but the back light was on). Any ideas as to what could be causing this?
Many thanks in advance. Doug.
March 24th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
DOUG,
Make sure you are running the latest BIOS. Try updating the BIOS if needed, maybe it has a fix for your LCD screen.
Could be loose connection between the video cable and LCD/motherboard. Do not open the laptop if it’s still under warranty.
March 26th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Many thanks for your reply! I have already updated the bios and display drivers, it is 100% up to date in all areas yet the same thing is happening, probably a loose connection then, i will take it back to the shop as its only 2 months old. Thanks again Laptop Feak!
April 2nd, 2009 at 5:10 pm
I have an HP laptop and whenever i click on wedding videos that i saved ,a “windows has stopped working” comment comes up.I even was trying to add one of those vids to a powerpoint presentation but same thing happened and powerpoint was restarted.Please help.I appreciate your time
April 16th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Can a Thinkpad A31 be upgraded to an A31P (to obtain a higher screen resolution)? If so, what will I need to change out to accomplish this upgrade?
June 20th, 2009 at 8:08 am
I’ve got an HP Pavilion DV5000 that also just shows a blank black screen when I try and boot it. I’ve read others peoples problems with a broken left hinge that may have caused the LCD to stop working but I don’t think that’s the case with mine as my hinge is just fine.
I’ve tried reseating both the memory sticks and HD, I’ve removed the battery pack and held down the power button for 60 seconds, etc… (all suggestions I’ve found when trying to search for a fix to my problem) and nothing has worked. I’ve also tried connecting an external monitor up to the laptop but nothing comes up on its screen either.
Any suggestions?
July 6th, 2009 at 3:07 am
hi, im having the same problem with my laptop. it does not display anything, how am i gonna fix the bios.. thanks.
July 24th, 2009 at 7:10 am
My laptop boots up but the screen is blank. If I hook it up to an external monitor, i can use the laptop just fine. What do I need to do to fix this?
October 28th, 2009 at 9:25 am
I have a dell studio and I had been viewing my screen on an external monitor. One day I went to go start up my computer and the laptop monitor did not come on, but when I hooked it up to an external display it showed up perfectly on the other screen. I’ve tried switching it to dual display and just plain switching it to just having my laptop screen show up. The external display will go blank like it should but in both cases my laptop screen is just dead black… no signs of life. Is this something I could fix because I need to use it at school.
December 20th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
updated BIOS on thinkpad a31 & everything. this only happened AFTER installing the ATi drivers (newest for this model according to Lenovo).
still happening.
un-installed newest drivers … STILL occuring …
any suggests?