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    Issue today with P180HM

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by hennaboy, Jul 12, 2013.

  1. hennaboy

    hennaboy Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello,

    Great start to a Friday today. Switched on my laptop worked fine. Put into sleep mode which is how I normally keep the laptop and went to work. Got there and blank screen. Nothing. Laptop is working but the screen was blank not on.

    After a series of taking the laptop apart putting it back together again I was at a complete loss to what is happening and how I am going to fix it.

    When starting the laptop all the lights came on. HD light flickered as normal and windows starting sounds was played in full. But the screen dead.

    Then after another restart it springs back to life screen is on like nothing had ever happened.

    Not that im happy as happy can be yeah go laptop. However ive missed a whole days work so cant really afford for it to happen again.

    I would appreciate any thoughts on this on where to look how can I diagnose what caused the issue.

    Clevo P180HM
    2670QM
    12GB ram
    OCZ Agility 3 SSD
    2 x GeoForce 560M graphics cards.
     
    hennaboy, Jul 12, 2013
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  2. jaybee83

    jaybee83 Biotech-Doc

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    id guess either loose display cable connection to the mobo or one of ur gpus is acting up
     
    jaybee83, Jul 12, 2013
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  3. hennaboy

    hennaboy Notebook Enthusiast

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    What I did try after I checked the cable connector to the board which was fine was to change the graphics cards around. As I have two I swapped over the master and slave and then turned it all back on again. Didnt work not sure if leaving the laptop off for awhile before turning it on again made any difference but its working now and has been restarted several times now.
     
    hennaboy, Jul 12, 2013
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    Prostar Computer Company Representative

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    If it comes up again, it could be a faulty cable - possibly the connector itself. Hopefully it was just a curious hiccup and everything is okay. :)
     
    Prostar Computer, Jul 12, 2013
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