How do I get out of Stand-By?

Just got my e1505 on Tuesday, and it was fine until today. I was ripping a CD onto windows media player and connecting to the internet at the same time. I'm using AOL at the moment (don't have DSL hooked up yet), and it froze as soon as I signed on, which apparently stopped media player from burning the cd as well. I did "end task" on AOL over and over again, but it wouldn't exit. So I tried logging off...nothing. Hit "shut down"...nothing. Hit the power button...nothing. Then I pressed ctrl+alt+esc, which apparently put it into stand-by mode.

I then shut the lid, and opened it back up, and now the screen is completely blank. The power light is still on, and I can hear the fan going, but there doesn't seem to be a button I can press to make the screen turn back on; I've hit the power button numerous times and nothing happens. I'm hoping there is a way to fix this, because I really don't want to deal with the dell "support".

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated...

 

hold the power button down til the computer is fully off

then turn it back on

lemme know if it works

 

Thanks, that seems to have worked.

I tried that before, but I have zero patience, and I guess I didn't hold it long enough. I got one of those windows error report things when I logged back on, but I hope that was only b/c I didn't log off properly. Hopefully nothing got messed up.

Thanks again, bro.

 

There shouldn't be any long lasting damage from the abrupt shut-off. I have that happen to me every once in a while where the system will hang. The reason you have to hold the power button down for a few seconds is because it is based on the ATX standard so the power switch won't instantly shut it down. It does a kind of "soft-reset" if you hold the button down long enough--otherwise the simple act of pressing the button will make windows try to shut down your machine.