My laptop decided it hates me and now if im using it and i shut it and leave it for awhile an then go to open it again it does nothing. It used to pop back up to the login screen but now nada. I have to push the on button then it will restart. Before i take it somewhere i wanted to know if anyone had any suggestions
Could be something as simple as checking your power settings.
Check your settings for what happens when you close the lid. You can set it to either go to sleep, shut-down, etc.
When you lift the lid are there ANY lights on the laptop showing, other than the power light?
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it was set to sleep and when i opened it back up the only lights on were the sleep light battery light and idk what this one is it looks like a cylindar with a arrow <–> that one flashed and then just the battery and sleep were on
Does it do this while its plugged in too, or only on battery power?
Ok so the PC is still on when you lift the lid, but not waking up. There are two main possibilities. You may have a broken switch which most computers will use, to know when the lid is open or shut. You may also have a corrupt VGA driver. It is common for the VGA driver to become corrupt on some units and the weird thing about it is they work only until you wake the system back up from sleep mode. But usually that involves a flickering screen or a jumbled image, I have not seen a screen just stay black. My first guess would be the lid switch. But it could be other things as well.
it does it both ways
Hmm, in that case its more than likely a hardware issue and not something to do with the software. My old Toshiba’s screen failed after about a year, it would flicker on and off when opened and change colors. Of course I bought it from CompUSA and they went out of business… I hooked my old monitor up to it and use it as a giant wireless hard drive now.
If you are thinking about getting a new laptop I’d highly recommend Lenovo… I have had mine for about a year of everyday use as well as bringing it back and forth to school and it’s been awesome. It’s pretty light too, I can throw it in my bookbag and barely even notice it’s there.
lol its a lenovo thinkpad i won it at hvcc orientation in jan it isnt even that old
BAHAHAHA! :rofl
Gotta get the ideapad!
It’s probably still under warranty, call up IBM… I mean Lenovo and have them clowns fix it!
its not like i couldve been like sorry i want the ideapad go exchange it for me lol im not complaining it was free and worked fine until last week
Watch now I’m going to go home and mine will be broken
lol its so weird tho the sceen just stays black an i want to fix it before school starts
Yeah I hear you. A laptop is great to have at the valley because the school computers SUCK and are usually hogged by a bunch of clowns anyway
try this… with the computer plugged in and the lid closed, open the laptop up. wait a few seconds to verify it is doing nothing. unplug the power cord from the laptop. Does your display come on when you do that? - if so i am assuming you recently updated your video card drivers… and that is the problem. it is a software issue. try rolling back to an older driver or deleteing and reinstalling the video card from the machine via device manager.
- 1 on the wayne
still nothing
try the other way… unplug the computer and close the lid… wait a bit then re-open and confirm it isn’t doing shit. plug computer back in. if it comes on then, it is software.
if it doesn’t respond to this i’m gonna say (if you haven’t made ANY driver changes recently) that it’s the actual hardware switch.
Ya know now that I think of it I think my Lenovo did this a few times… it stopped after I updated windows though.