Recently, I put my laptop to sleep and when I opened it again, the screen got frozen. I restarted it around 5 times but still the screen was blank all the time. I thought maybe my hard drive crashed or something and I tried loading from my Vista DVD but still the laptop screen was blank.
After quick search and reading from the HP Laptop manual, I got it back to life after I took off the power cable and battery from the Laptop and put it again. I found that some of my friends also had the same problem when they put their laptop to sleep. So next time if your laptop screen goes pitch black when you are try to wake the computer after sleep mode, remove both the power cable and battery, wait for some time and then put it back!
If that’s the case for you, you may try these steps to make it work:
- First if the computer screen gets frozen, when you are working something, try ALT + CTRL + DEL or restart your computer.
- Make sure your computer is not in sleep mode or hibernate. You may wake it from hibernation by pressing the power button or by moving the mouse or pressing any button if it’s in sleep mode.
- Make sure the power cable to the monitor is working, in case if you are using a desktop.
- Make sure you have connected the monitor to the computer or to any other external display device (like a projector). If a laptop is connected to an external device, the image can be displayed in either the laptop screen or the external device or both. Use the keyboard shortcut, fn+f4 (Function + F4) repeatedly to switch between the options.
Useful tips there.
What has happened to you has happened to me as well once. I was messing around with things wondering what had happened but then some one comes me at the end of the day telling me to remove and plug in the power cord, it restarts again magically.
@Shankar Ganesh, I didn’t realize that many would be facing the same issue.
hey, very good tips buddy, gr8 post buddy enjoyed! my frnd has similar problem i will email hem this..
Thanks for the tips. Could come in handy anytime. BTW, I have never had such a problem.. Phew!
Very nice tip…I found this out the hard way one day too. I could not figure out what was going on for the life of me and I decided to take the battery out and put it back in. It worked perfectly fine after that.
I have also started having this problem and I was also having a problem with static build up when burning DVDs from dust that had built up in the cooling units and the computer would just shut down mid-burn. The solution was to unplug batteries and leads, drain the power, and then put it all back in.
I vaccumed it out, and it started working properly, but now the monitor is having hissy fits - so I think I need to send it for a good clean out as it seems that the static in the power is what is causing this as well?
hi there again.. i tried taking out and put the battery again but it still didn’t work.. the lights on the keys are on though.. and the microsoft logo is loading but after that it would turn blank again.. what could be the problem?
thank you very much.. i would really appreciate
@ janice, I believe your issue seems to be that vista booting may have got corrupted as you were saying that you got a message not to switch off as it was updating vista…
You can try to do a system restore from the booting…
On other note, right after the system update…you may get a blank screen after vista logo comes for a brief period of time….and this time may vary depeding on what kind of update it is…So first I would suggest you to leave the screen like that for about say 10 minutes (in the worst case scenario)…and see if its working…Hope it works for you…
My laptop was having the issue of the screen blacking out also and now I can’t get anything to come up on the screen. It used to be that I could remove the battery and power lead and everything would be fine, but that quit working. I plugged the laptop into an external monitor and still nothing. At first I thought hard drive failure, but now it seems to be a main board issue. Any suggestions?
Nice share, thnx alot!
I have a dell latitude, and when i start it up from hibernation i get the black screen. Sometimes pressing the buttons fixes it, sometimes it stays black for 5-10 minutes then it just comes back up. But 99% of the time it works right away.
Thank you soo much! My computer that I just got for Christmas went black and I thought that I had surely broken it. After I tried to restart it a few times, I had no doubt that it was broken. I found this site and it is truly a life saver! So thank you, thank you, thank you!
my lt monitor is blacking out too. if i give it a hard whack on the cover, it sometimes starts working again. it seems to me there might be a loose wire in there. anyone had this experience? i use windows xp.
@molly, Sometime even I face this when I keep my laptop monitor in a very obtuse angle. And if I adjust the angle, it works good.
Thanks for the tip about taking out the battery, it worked fine after that. I was frustrated for a moment because I just recieved this new computer after my old brand new one died and was not able to be fixed. It started acting up just like this one was doing.
So thanks again!!!