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    Screen won't turn back on

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Flav_cool, Oct 15, 2009.

  1. Flav_cool

    Flav_cool Notebook Consultant

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    This happens maybe every week or every two weeks. I'll leave the computer with a WN+L to log off and close the lid. When I come back and open the lid, the screen won't come back on. I can log on blindly and if I remember how to shutdown, blindly. But whatever I do I cannot get the screen to come back on without a restart! I've tried doing the fn+8 to change to secondary screen, etc, even tried hooking up another screen, nothing works. If I hibernate from this state, when I come back from hibernate it will show the windows logo AND THEN AGAIN GO BACK TO A SHUT OFF SCREEN.

    HELP!!!
     
    Flav_cool, Oct 15, 2009
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  2. gerryf19

    gerryf19 I am the walrus

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    try a bios update if available...given this is a second thread on two problems for an old machine...I'd update everything
     
    gerryf19, Oct 15, 2009
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  3. Kocane

    Kocane Notebook Deity

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    Try new drivers for your GPU.
     
    Kocane, Oct 15, 2009
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