Sager notebook blank screen problem!

Hi there! I just received a Sager notebook as a gift a week ago. Since then, I've had the same problem twice. The first happened on Saturday - I was browsing the web, when the computer became unresponsive. I tried everything, then turned it off. I turned it back on, and I could hear all the normal sounds of working, and the lights were on... But the screen was blank. I'll admit it, I was afraid I'd broken it, so I turned it off and left for a party in the hopes that I could come back and get it to work. When I came back four hours later, I turned it on and everything was fine. My father decided it must have just overheated. PHEW! (Today I bought a nice cooling stand for it, by the way.)

Today, I was watching a video, and I tried to turn the sound down with my keyboard, and accidentally hit the sleep button. Woops. So, I tried to bring it out of hibernation, and it wouldn't come out. I let it sit, then came back and tried again, and it still wouldn't come out! So, again, I turned it off. I know that's bad, but there was nothing I could do to get it to come back. I turned it back on, and the lights came on and everything started working...

Except the screen. Again. Joy. So! I came back an hour later and tried again, and the screen still won't come on. Has anyone else had this problem?

 

It does sound like GPU overheating. You should probably contact Sager about it.

 

All right, great, thanks! Do you have any experience with additional fans? The stand I bought has one large fan, and the computer has four small ones built in.

 

I dunno what you bought, but as a good cooler for laptops, I recommend the Zalman NC2000,as any experienced user would tell you. It`s among the best on the market.
Follow the link in my sig and start monitoring temps as shown in it.
It may be overheating, or might just be a loose cable, or some OS problems.
S3 issues(Standby) are not that uncommon. I seem to have them once in a while too

 

When you have problems with your system you should always mention the exact system (model number) that you have.

 

You should contact your reseller. It could be any number of things, from the mundane, like GPU overheating (which you can check by using one of the numerous available hardware monitoring apps), or a bad/corrupt driver (which is frequently the cause of screen-freeze), to something exotic like one of the rarely-encountered problems the P965 and PM965 chipsets have with power management (if you really want a blow-by-blow, go to the Intel website, look up the chipset, and then look for the updates to the technical specifications; there are several so-called errata in the chipsets that can, under just the right conditions, cause the symptoms you're having; however, before you conclude that it's one of those problems, that's unlikely as Intel states that each erratum was either rare or only reproduced under synthetic lab conditions).