[Aztec Boi]

okay so recently my laptop has started going black after a while, every 30 min or sometimes itll work for hours but all of a sudden it just goes black. I know that it dosent go to sleep or anything like that because I changed everything to do nothing after a while, I was listening to music and the screen went black and the music turned off also. Can anyone help me on what can cause this problem or why its doing it? any help will be apprieciated.

 

[Aztec Boi]

Anybody have any clue?

 

[blupupher]

does the screeen turn back on when you move the mouse?

Also, don't bump more than once every 24 hours.

 

[Aztec Boi]

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Originally Posted by blupupher does the screeen turn back on when you move the mouse? Also, don't bump more than once every 24 hours.

no it does not

it dosent do anything at all it just stays black, somebody told me it might be outdated drivers?

 

[blupupher]

Did you check all the power settings (for both on battery and plugged in).

 

[neDav]

Sounds like the backlight may be going bad. Do you have a monitor that you can hook it up to to see if it still goes black?

 

[Aztec Boi]

yes i checked both power settings and unfortunately i have no other screen to test it on

sometimes it dosent and other days it wont do it all, today ive been on it for like 4 hours and no black screen yet.

 

[Rhystic]

I've heard that on HP Pavilion's, at least the older ones, that have turion x2 and nvidia graphics start doing that and eventually the screen will just stop turning on because of the nvidia chip overheating and the solder going bad.

Maybe try googling your Toshiba's model and see if other people have similar problems?

 

[Deegan]

ill bet its the inverter going bad or a loose connection. do me a favor. next time it goes black tap and or squeeze the screen on the bottom bezel right near the middle. NOT ON THE SCREEN ITSELF!!! that is usually where the inverter is.

 

[ZHoob2004]

sounds like an issue with the backlighting to me. I would see if anyone you know has an extra monitor that they would let you borrow to test this.

also, does restarting immediately fix the problem? perhaps if your laptop has keys to turn the backlight on and off you could try that when the screen goes out and see if you can turn it back on - that would assure that is the backlight that needs replacement

 

[Aztec Boi]

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Originally Posted by ZHoob2004 sounds like an issue with the backlighting to me. I would see if anyone you know has an extra monitor that they would let you borrow to test this. also, does restarting immediately fix the problem? perhaps if your laptop has keys to turn the backlight on and off you could try that when the screen goes out and see if you can turn it back on - that would assure that is the backlight that needs replacement

once it turns black everything stops working and if i move the mouse or anything it wont do anything, the only way i could get it to work is to turn it off by holding the power button and turning it back on and it works normally again until it gets the black screen randomly, very strange i dont know why its doing this =/.