Help. When i woke up this mourning and started to boot my laptop the laptop started i could see a feint image of the load screen but the monitor would not fully come on. If i press my laptops lid button that gets pressed when my lid closes then the screen will come on but only for a second.

This happened once before and the problem fixed itself somehow when i restarted it. But this time it has rendered my laptop unuseable.

I'm using FC4 with kernel 2.6.15. Has anybody else had this problem or knows of a way to fix it?

Thanks Byblyk

What kind of brand and model is the laptop?
Is the laptop dual boot with a different OS? If so does it work fine?
Was any updates applied between the usage the night before?
Might try booting with a knoppix disc and see if it works fine.
Might try booting with the fc4 disk to see if the screen looks ok, don't reinstall yet.

Brian1

Thank you for the reply.

Laptop is a HP Pavilion zv 5600ca i think

FC4 is the only OS i've got on it at the moment.

Updates were applied last night before i shut it down but i had done several restarts, also it had done it on earlier occasions after a fresh install.

I eventually got it working tho, i just mashed down my lid button untill my monitor came back on and stayed on. I'm going to deffenatly look into a solution for this tho.

Any ideas from that? Like when i booted it up it did it right from the second i pressed the power button before anything had even loaded. That confuses me becase i don't know if it's hardware of software related right now.

Thanks
Byblyk

If it does it before booting an OS then I would say it is a hardware issue. If it is under warrenty I would send it in or have a tech show up. Only issue is that they may want Windows on it if it came with it.

Brian1

Boo, thats what i'm worried about. I'm hoping its a software issue but i think it may be hardware. If it is the screen i may just have to get a new laptop. When march break if over i'm gonna get some friends together and we can all toss in our 2 cents.

Thanks
Byblyk

If you send or take the laptop into a service center simply pull the hard drive out. They do not need it of any reason in order to fix the laptop (most put in one of their own for hardware testing anyhow). This is a good rule of thumb reguardless of the OS, remember the X-Files theme and "Trust No One"

I had this problem the day I purchased my new notebook.

Took it back to the store next day, and they then pulled the machine apart and reseated that little nubbin that the lid closes on. Took them a hour or so, no problem, all sorted.

Haha X-files. I'm going to see if it does it again, and if it does then i will take it in for sure and pull the hard drive out before i do. Thanks for your answers it may not be as bad as i thought.

Byblyk

Sounds like your lcd was always working but the backlight wasn't
turning on.

Theres a tool called radeontool that can control the backlight of lcd screens.

Brian1

nice, i'm gonna check out radeontool before i go to bed tonight.

Thanks for all the help
byblyk

PS it hasn't done it since.