Toshiba Satellite X205-SLI1

Hi,

I hope I'm posting in the correct place and not making any obvious goofs!

I've had my Toshiba Satellite X205-SLI1 for about a year. Totally thrilled with it, loving every minute of it. Until about a week ago. I'd left my computer on overnight d/ling some stuff like I usually do and when I woke up Sunday morning the screen was black. I thought, "Okay, I'll just reboot it." I've had Toshiba laptops for years and my experience has always been fabulous with them. In fact, we have no less that three much older Toshiba laptops running right this minute (and one in a drawer not being used), that's how much I love these computers. Through the years I've *always* rebooted a mess up and had it fix itself in some miraculous way. I've been *very* spoiled, I know.

Anyway, rebooted it on Sunday morning and the screen stayed black, but I could hear Windows Vista booting just fine through the speakers. In fact, the whole computer works just fine, just not the screen.

Is this a common problem with this model? Am I going to be forking out tons of money for a new screen? Because that would really suck. The computer is so young and I've heard that replacing a laptop screen is stupid, since you'd spend about as much as replacing the whole machine.

Help?

 

By stayed black, do you mean that you get no BIOS information before Windows loads? If so, that's likely a hardware problem.

However, have you tried booting with an external display? It's possible all you have to do is to start up the laptop with an external display, and the BIOS POST screen will appear. If this is the case, set the machine (in BIOS and Windows) to use the LCD instead of an external display.

YMMV.