Laptop won't display when booted.

Mersh23 · 11-28-2009, 09:34 AM

Well I have this laptop that is running on Vista. Ever since I've had this Laptop I have always had a problem with it getting really really hot. So I went out and bought a fan to keep it cool. But it only gets hot when you play games such as WoW on it. Anyways, one day the damn thing started flicking colors and getting pixely and boom blue screen of death. Then I restart it and its fine. Then I get back on it and it gets all pixely again. So I restart it again, and I boot it back up and the Dell things shows up and asks if I want to do A scan or whatever so I do it. But then it takes an hour so I restart it again. But when I boot it up this time nothing displays. I look to see if all the lights are on.. and I listen and hear the hard drive going and the fan. My guess is that the video card went out but I can't find out how... maybe it over heated but it worked before I restarted it. Any guesses?

dai · 11-28-2009, 10:24 AM

shine a torch on the screen and see if you see anything

try a monitor connected to it and see if you get a screen

see if you get anything in safe mode

11-28-2009, 09:34 AM	#1 (permalink)
Mersh23 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 1 OS: Vista	Laptop won't display when booted. Well I have this laptop that is running on Vista. Ever since I've had this Laptop I have always had a problem with it getting really really hot. So I went out and bought a fan to keep it cool. But it only gets hot when you play games such as WoW on it. Anyways, one day the damn thing started flicking colors and getting pixely and boom blue screen of death. Then I restart it and its fine. Then I get back on it and it gets all pixely again. So I restart it again, and I boot it back up and the Dell things shows up and asks if I want to do A scan or whatever so I do it. But then it takes an hour so I restart it again. But when I boot it up this time nothing displays. I look to see if all the lights are on.. and I listen and hear the hard drive going and the fan. My guess is that the video card went out but I can't find out how... maybe it over heated but it worked before I restarted it. Any guesses?

11-28-2009, 10:24 AM	#2 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 57,932 OS: win 7 32x 64x rtm	Re: Laptop won't display when booted. shine a torch on the screen and see if you see anything try a monitor connected to it and see if you get a screen see if you get anything in safe mode __________________