Restore disk/reinstall? Sounds software (presumably driver) related rather than a hardware issue, though it could have been
caused by any number of hardware problems.
Does the hard-drive activity LED continue to flash for a while after the screen goes dark?
Can you hook up a monitor to the VGA-out port (or DVI/HDMI/DisplayPort port) if it has one? Can't think of any reason why a resolution can't be displayed on a laptop as the drivers should limit it to the specs of the screen, but it might eliminate that anyway.
DJSKYLINE Wrote:
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> nothing on screen? i guess the only solution is
> too have to look around for some settings in the
> bios
Can't think of anything in any BIOS that would cause a PC to fail at that point regularly. Closest you'd get would be changing the hard drive from ACHI to IDE emulation mode, which would stop the OS loading, but would cause a brief blue screen followed by an almost immediate automatic restart of the PC (unless automatic restarts was disabled of course).
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/28/2008 08:37PM by gav.