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    Black Screen when resuming from standby

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by Marcham93, Mar 27, 2010.

  1. Marcham93

    Marcham93 Notebook Evangelist

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    Hey guys.... Having this issue were once in a while the machine will resume like normal, but the display stays black/off. Doesn't happen all the time, but can get annoying. Any fixes?
     
    Marcham93, Mar 27, 2010
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  2. be77solo

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    I've had this problem since the first week, and over the past month, it's done it about 5 times total out of probably an average of 5-10 starts a day, so 5 times out of ~275 starts.... it is annoying though.

    When I mentioned it before, it was guessed to be a driver problem related to the Nvidia GPU. Not positve, but it still randomly does it, both with Dell drivers and also the updated DOX 195.62 drivers.
     
    be77solo, Mar 27, 2010
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  3. CokeCanNinja

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    Send it back for a replacement.
     
    CokeCanNinja, Mar 27, 2010
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  4. Letdewookiewin

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    im pretty sure alot of people have this problem. Is the screen completely off our is the light on and the pixels are black? is the mouse visible?
     
    Letdewookiewin, Mar 27, 2010
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    i've been seeing lots of questions of the that sort here. maybe we (read BatBoy :)) should combine them all, this way the users could exchange experiences and find a solution.
     
    mfractal, Mar 28, 2010
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  7. Marcham93

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    Okay Thanks I'll wait for the next release.

    The screen usually does turn on eventually... but sometimes it can take up to 30 seconds...
     
    Marcham93, Apr 19, 2010
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    awww yeah I have seen that before and it is most definitely a driver problem the pops up from time to time.
     
    nelsontheunholy, Apr 20, 2010
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    I have this problem intermittently, a ctrl-alt-del will remedy the problem, you don't have to completely restart.
     
    ttnuagmada, Apr 20, 2010
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    well i havent change the driver but updated my bios to a05 and it was fixed..
     
    djan84, Apr 20, 2010
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    edit: problem sorted
     
    Caligari_UK, Apr 20, 2010
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    I've seen it happen on my M11x a few times (I'm still on the stock OS and stock hard drive, a record for me), waking up from sleep (not hibernation). What I did was press the power button to put it to sleep again (I set my button to sleep), wake it again and the screen comes back. I know it's such a drag to have to fully reboot the OS.

    On another note, in the Windows XP days I'd always hibernate the OS. Since Vista and now Win7, I use sleep exclusively. Coming out of hibernation the memory cache is cleared and everything has to be read from the drive again, whereas on sleep the cache is kept. With my 8GB M11x with most everthing cached, the hard drive hardly gets read opening apps, even a whole game (SF4). The battery seems to drain about 8% overnight on sleep, not an issue if it's kept plugged in.
     
    GadgetsNut, Apr 20, 2010
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