Is my notebook dying?

I have an HP 17 inch vista notebook that is almost 2 years old that I bought at Costco. I want to know if it is dying and needs to be brought it to be looked in as I have a 2 year warranty.

Just recently, when the lid is down and when I pick it up, the screen is dead and I have to shut the power off. And then turn the power back on in order to see the screen. I do not use the battery at all. I keep it plugged in. . THis does not happen all the time, just occassionally but seems to be increasing. Once it is rebooted everything seems fine

Is this something to be concerned about? As I said this never happened until a couple of weeks ago.

 

You could update your display drives to check if that's the cause. maybe update Vista too, if those don't help I'd want it fixed, especially seeing as the warranty will run out soon.

 

Let's hope not.

Suspend/resume issues can sometimes be cleared up through disc maintenance. I routinely use a free program called CCleaner to clear out unwanted baggage from Windows and the registry followed by a scandisk (don't scan for bad sectors) and defrag.

Also, re-establish the settings in power management by applying changes and then changing them back.

Try these first.

 

I downloaded ccleaner. there are a lot of options there. should I just leave everything at default. do I just want to do the cleaner tab of anlyze and run. I will not do anything to the registry. I have heard too many horror stories of things going wrong. I will do a scan and defrag. it has been a while since I have done that. The labtop is just used for the web so I haven't been doing it as often as I should.

 

have you blown out vents? dust could cause a short circuit, very unlikely, but you should still do it.

as others said install new drivers.

 

what would video drivers have to do with this? How do you update notebook drivers. the ones on nvide site are not for notebooks. I think it is the 7400go or 7600go card.

 

I've never had any problems cleaning out my registry, but as you wish. Leave the default options under windows and run it. Then do the scan and defrag.

It won't do any harm to update the video drivers but if you decide to do so, use the update from your manufacturer's website. Otherwise, you'll have to download and use a driver cleaner before you install one of those third party drivers used for gaming and I don't think that's warranted in your case.