The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Display won't come back on

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by frugihoyi, Feb 17, 2007.

  1. frugihoyi

    frugihoyi Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    59
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    I have a Dell Inspiron 6400 and when I'm running it off the battery, sometimes they display won't come back on after it goes off (I have it set to turn off after one minute). It also happens sometimes after I try to come back from hibernation or sleep. The only solution I've been able to find was to hold down the power button to restart the computer. Here are the rest of my settings for running on battery:

    Turn off display: After 1 minute
    Turn off hard drive: After 3 minutes
    System suspend: After 2 minutes
    Timeout to hibernate: After 5 minutes
    Display brightness: level 3

    So what gives?
     
    frugihoyi, Feb 17, 2007
    #1
  2. qhn

    qhn Notebook User

    Reputations:
    1,654
    Messages:
    5,955
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    205
    just my preference, in this sequence:
    . turn off display
    . hibernate
    . suspend
    . turn off hard drive

    some systems do take a while, sometimes up to minutes, to restart when recovering from suspension/drive turning off

    cheers ...
     
    qhn, Feb 17, 2007
    #2
  3. benna

    benna Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    1
    Messages:
    341
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    i have the same prob with my inspiron - running vista (only had this prob with vista)
     
    benna, Feb 17, 2007
    #3
  4. Lysander

    Lysander AFK, raid time.

    Reputations:
    1,553
    Messages:
    2,722
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    55
    I've had this problem in the past, but found that upgrading the bios fixed the issue.
     
    Lysander, Feb 17, 2007
    #4
  5. kegobeer

    kegobeer 1 hr late but moving fast

    Reputations:
    836
    Messages:
    3,682
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    105
    I had this problem as well. Once I ran a registry cleaner, the problem stopped. I think it's a combination of installed and removed programs that cause it.
     
    kegobeer, Feb 17, 2007
    #5