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Laptop Screen wont work

  • 06-03-2010 3:31pm
    #1
    u140acro3xs7dm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,512 ✭✭✭


    A friend had a problem with his laptop (Packard Bell Easynote) that windows would not load up properly, he gave me the laptop to have a look. It had no battery with it when i got it so i plugged the power cable in and turned it on, the lights came on and the fans spun but nothing came up on the screen, just blank. I took the HDD out and fixed the windows problem in my own PC, but now i cant get anything on screen, i plugged in my monitor and got nothing. judging by his system restore it had not being turned on since christmas time. I put a cd in and i could hear it spinning, i cant really hear the hdd but it is quiet anyway. i had a quick look for the cmos battery but couldnt find it, i also pressed function and all the different f keys when i turned it on but still nothing. another thing is it turns off by just pressing the power button without holding it down.

    Any help would be much appreciated.

    Thanks


Comments

  • #2
    R3al
    Closed Accounts Posts: 303 ✭✭R3al


    If you tried another monitor and still got no response the problem is most likely with the graphics card


  • #3
    u140acro3xs7dm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,512 ✭✭✭u140acro3xs7dm


    Thats what i thought too but was wondering if anything else could be causing this.


  • #4
    polyfusion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 679 ✭✭✭polyfusion


    Alistair Deafening Conduit wrote: »
    ... another thing is it turns off by just pressing the power button without holding it down...

    Sounds to me like it's not booting. Solving the problem on your own computer doesn't mean it will work on the other computer (different hardware/different drivers).

    You could learn a lot (as regards hardware health) by burning a live boot-cd like Knoppix and trying to boot it.


  • #5
    u140acro3xs7dm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,512 ✭✭✭u140acro3xs7dm


    I have tried knoppix too, nothing at all happened


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