Dell 1558 laptop replacement screen on, but not lighting up?
you need to check your connections and make sure nothing got damaged in the switch. You might want to hook up the old one temporarily just to make sure that the bulb is getting power, then contact Dell. I would say that if the old one is working then it is a bad backlight in the monitor.
Alienware Laptop Turns on, but Screen Doesn't.?
My computer has been working fine the days prior, but today I tried turning it on and everything started up as it should (lights, fans, keyboard light, CAPS TAB NUMLK lights etc), except the screen isn't coming on. At all. It seems like it did this one time before, but I thought it was just a boot error because it was booting into Linux rather than Windows. (My Linux is glitchy.) So I reset it and it worked. But now it's just not coming on AT ALL. I left it on to see if I could hear the Windows start up sounds, but nothing. Also, if the power button is pushed, it cuts off instantly (as if it was in BIOs) Normally, I'd plug a monitor into the laptop to see if I could get signal through that, but the problem is: my laptop doesn't have a VGA plugin for a monitor. A week before the laptop went out I was on summer break. I haven't touched the laptop since the start of summer either (I took the battery out and drained the power out of the laptop at the beginning of summer.) Is there any alternatives for troubleshooting what's wrong? I've yet to try the flashlight trick (to see if the backlight has burnt out) I already know that these two things could possibly be the 'major' problem: --Video Card --Capacitor Problems But I'm waiting to test these two as a last resort since the laptop is fairly new (about a year old?), and hasn't been used 'that much'
Laptop turns on, but the screen is black?
My suggestion would be to unplug the cord from the connection on the computer, then remove the battery. After you've done that, press and hold the On/Off switch for about 60 seconds, then, after you've done that connect everything back together, and see if it will reboot. If not, check the hard drive, and the ram and make sure they are all connected tightly.
Acer Laptop screen won't turn on?
Few things could be the cause of this. First of all, try using the Fn (Function) key by the space bar and the picture of the screen above one of the F keys on top or up arrows. If that doesn't work, or you see a very faint image on the screen, usually means that the unit in the computer that produces the light for the screen is bad. Normally costs about $100.00 to replace.
My laptop turns on but the screen is black. What do I do to fix it?
Other answers have jumped to a hardware fault. Perhaps not incorrectly, sure. But I'd first make sure we're not dealing with a software issue, or any other "have you tried turning it off and back on again?" sort of things.First, and foremost, does your laptop have a "Display Off" button? I have a Sony Vaio which has one of these. It's a flush bezel button near the clamshell hinge. I have absolutely no fucking clue why it's there. But it is. The only thing I can think of is it's a "privacy" button...for when you can't quite hit the (x) close button on the browser window when your spouse walks in on you ogling (.)'s.Since you didn't post a picture I will assume that you mean the screen is entirely black. No faint glow, no nothing? In other words, it doesn't look even remotely like this [note the blinking cursor]:Have you plugged anything new into your laptop recently? A new USB device? A new external drive? Do you have a docking station? If you have a docking station, does it behave differently if on or off of it?Have you verified that your battery is charged, and that even if not, your power supply is providing proper charging to the battery when it's plugged in? My laptop has a little lightning-bolt LED that indicates the power supply is properly plugged in. Sometimes those stupid connectors can become loose -- or worse, crimped [kids knocking the thing about, etc.] -- so that they don't make a proper connection. I can't tell you how many times I've sat down with my laptop that had been "plugged in" for hours only to hit the power button, see it appear to go through its start-up groans, only to have it fizzle-out and not work shortly after.Do you have a recovery disc for the OS you have installed? What happens if you turn the power on with that in the laptop?Do you have a USB memory stick? If so, there are a bunch of different things to try here Boot and run Linux from a USB flash memory stick, even booting DOS from it.