Roger - Okay - that was simple. Nope - Monitor and laptop screen are the same. I found it is not the video. I ran about everything on Hiren's boot disk and finally tried Mini XP. Everything showed up (looks like 16 bit) but have not been able to get to recover or restore again. Tried another and got "No PXE Stack". I ran another diagnostic and it seemed to run every file (took forever) and came back at the end of every file "did not run test folder locked." I am going to try active uneraser (some folder 29 error) again (from Hirens). Oh - on the pre boot test, everything passed. Also, I did a backup disk a while back but can't seem to find any recovery files. Did a backup (Macrium Reflect) on external drive - it took forever - but the file does not have a lot of info in it. Also, I can't get on line with this thing (I am using another laptop). Even tried using an external WIFI adapter.
Thanks,
Hagie
--- In simplycomputers2@yahoogroups.com, "RogerX19" <helpmeroger@...> wrote:
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> It's a laptop. Every time you open or close the lid you flex the connecting wires between the laptop body and the screen.
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> The first thing I would do is plug in an external monitor, just to see if the computer is bad, or the laptop screen is bad.
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> (you may have to hold down the Fn key, and press the F8 key on the keyboard to swith the display to external)
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> If the computer works normally with an external monitor, you can decide if you want to proceed with troubleshooting the interior display.
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> If you get the same symptoms on the external monitor, we'll go from there.
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> let us know.
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> --- In simplycomputers2@yahoogroups.com, "hagie" <hagie33040@> wrote:
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> > Hey Gurus,
> > Think my 'puter died. I have A Dell Precision M90 Laptop. 2.0 ghz, 4gig RAM, Win 7 Pro, 32 bit. For as short period, the screen wound go black when I was typing or doing minor tasks. Yesterday, I went to play an old video while cleaning up the drive and after about a minute, the screen went black but the sound continued. I waited and after a fashion I tried cont/alt/delete but nothing came up. I never got a picture os any kind and did a force shut down. Yhat was kind of THE END!! I restarted the computer and it came back to life briefly and then went black. I managed to try "system restore" and black screen again. Tried my back up disk - black screen.I get as far as starting windows with the icon, then black scrren again. The cpu running light runs briefly and then shuts sown.
> > Early on, I manageged to get a complete start in saffe mode and ran full blown (30 day trial) AVA and malware bites free. nothing came up.
> > I have reattempted to restart in safe mode. I get the dos run thru and then all that shows up on the screen is the mouse pointer. I can't get on line with it.
> > What do you think crashed? What do I need to replace?
> > Regards to all, hagie
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