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    Sager5790 screen's gone black - need help :(

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by ThePacster, Mar 28, 2010.

  1. ThePacster

    ThePacster Notebook Geek

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    Hello everybody. On the main family computer and at this point I have no idea what to do. A few weeks ago I updated my graphics card to some modified drivers and they've worked ok. Once or twice the screen would freeze for a second and resume while playing a game but I didn't think anything of it.

    Today however, while playing a game, the screen froze, and then suddenly went black. I waited and waited, but it seemed the laptop was frozen, so I decided to shut it down and reboot. However, when I tried to reboot, the screen remained black.

    When booting, the screen is black, but appears lit if that makes sense. But then after a moment, the screen goes completely black as if I've shut off a computer monitor.

    :confused: Any thoughts on how I might be able to remedy this would be greatly appreciated.
     
    ThePacster, Mar 28, 2010
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  2. Blacky

    Blacky Notebook Prophet

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    Try to connect to an external monitor and see what happens.
     
    Blacky, Mar 28, 2010
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  3. ThePacster

    ThePacster Notebook Geek

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    When connected to an external monitor, I could go into VGA mode, but it was stuck at a low 4-bit resolution. If I tried to change the resolution it would switch back to the laptop screen, but both the laptop and the external monitor go black and freeze up.
     
    ThePacster, Mar 29, 2010
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  4. dave.ladner

    dave.ladner Notebook Evangelist

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    The 8800M GTX series card in the laptop?...

    If so. it's fried. Been a lot of 'black screen freeze' problems with this series the past few months on here (NP579X series).

    Mine was randomly freezing with black screen and I reapplied the thermal paste on the CPU/GPU real good, did a full cleaning, as well as a billion other things to fix it... it doesn't freeze anymore so... might just be your paste has worn down.
     
    dave.ladner, Mar 29, 2010
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  5. Lobster Lutze

    Lobster Lutze Notebook Enthusiast

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    See this thread: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=463385

    If its an 8800 then it contains all the likely causes and the few options you have.

    I'm pretty sure you're graphics card is dead, been happening to a lot of 8- series cards and its a universal problem with all nvidia chips.
     
    Lobster Lutze, Mar 29, 2010
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