hp pavillion ze4800 screen not working

wheatcrisps · 09-23-2008, 01:56 PM

My four-year-old notebook has been getting slower and slower. It began freezing on a black screen (or so I thought) when I started it up, and when I forced it to quit and started it up again it would always work. Now it turns on, the lights all come on, and it plays the start up sound, but the screen stays black.
is there anything i can do without hooking it up to another monitor?

**TriggerFinger** · 09-23-2008, 03:47 PM

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Originally Posted by wheatcrisps

My four-year-old notebook has been getting slower and slower. It began freezing on a black screen (or so I thought) when I started it up, and when I forced it to quit and started it up again it would always work. Now it turns on, the lights all come on, and it plays the start up sound, but the screen stays black.
is there anything i can do without hooking it up to another monitor? -- By your description it seems that your laptop is booting but you just cannot see it on the screen. Have you tried to view the screen at an angle or use a flashlight to see beyond the dark LCD? If you have done this, did you see anything beyond the dim/dark background (do you see your Desktop?)?. If you DO NOT see anything, it could be your backlight, inverter or GPU/motherboard.

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wheatcrisps Registered User Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 1 OS: xp	hp pavillion ze4800 screen not working My four-year-old notebook has been getting slower and slower. It began freezing on a black screen (or so I thought) when I started it up, and when I forced it to quit and started it up again it would always work. Now it turns on, the lights all come on, and it plays the start up sound, but the screen stays black. is there anything i can do without hooking it up to another monitor?