Sometimes laptop won't display screen..

G'day,
On a few seperate occasions I notice when I close the lid on my laptop (in sig), and open it back up again, there is nothing on the screen - its black, and requires a hard reset to get it back. It is not set to do anything when it's closed - but I just found the "turn display off after 5 mins" thing, so will see if it does anything after I turned that off. Other then that, any other ideas? It never happened under XP.

Cheers.

 

It's most likely a bug with the handling of resume from the S3 sleep state. It's similar to the problem described here.

I assume that you are running the newest BIOS. Get the newest graphics driver from the manufacturer if not available from Dell.

John

 

Yep, newest Bios, A10. !!! That's right! GRAPHICS DRIVERR ! Uh, how silly of me, I think I forgot to install that I'll install that and see how things go! I never realised that could be the problem, anyway, thanks!

 

I have this problem in Vista and Win7 when I leave my laptop on, lid close, when I have an external monitor attached to it (but the monitor is off - well different source to be technical), for several hours. It's very rare this occurs. I am sure it's some Windows or display driver bug. I have the Nvidia solution.