[fleschcom]

laptop comes on and there is an lock icon that flashes 9 times drives spins up but shuts off immediately after the 9th flash never get any thing on display, tried inserting a bootable disk, removing bios battery, for hours then replacing, made sure interlock switch on laptop to display was ok. when it last worked it was in standby

 

[joeten]

Hi and welcome to TSF try some of the steps here http://www.techsupportforum.com/f108/black-screen-issues-and-troubleshooting-498132.html