Computer problemo

[ajk23az]

Alrighty, once again, I'm having a problem with my laptop.

Acer Aspire 5610Z (yes, pretty old )
Windows Vista 32 Bit

Whenever I restart my laptop, the monitor goes black, but not TOTALLY black, there is still SOME light coming through and I can vaguely see what is going on. The only way I can get the monitor to come back on completely is to push the little button that shuts the laptop monitor off when you close it. When I push this button the screen flickers and most of the time it stays black, sometimes the screen comes back on only to go black 5 seconds later. At times it takes 10 consecutive minutes of pushing that stupid button to get the screen to stay on.

Any thoughts?

 

[MarionBarberThe4th]

I would but you said problemo

 

[ajk23az]

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[dback]

The contact inside of that little button could be sticking. Unfortunately, the button may have to be replaced as a part of an assembly. I do not know the particular layout of that laptop so I don't know whatelse to offer. It could also be a monitor cable that could be the culprit also. As the laptop screen is opened and closed hundreds of time, the slightest pulls on the cable could cause it to be loosened.

 

[ajk23az]

The contact inside of that little button could be sticking. Unfortunately, the button may have to be replaced as a part of an assembly. I do not know the particular layout of that laptop so I don't know whatelse to offer. It could also be a monitor cable that could be the culprit also. As the laptop screen is opened and closed hundreds of time, the slightest pulls on the cable could cause it to be loosened.

Thanks for the reply. I had to give it to my cousin in law a month or so ago because I needed to reformat the hard drive and reinstall Vista. I wonder if mistakenly did something?

 

[Kangaroo]

Doubtful sounds like a hardware problem either the screen is going out, the blacklight or a cable is lose. On most laptop brands there are screws on the bottow and you take those out and you can pull up the keyboard gently and check for lose cables if you want to try that. If you are under warranty I use that. If you are not be carefull because there is a connector for the touchpad mouse they suck not impossible just a pain in the arse the first few times until you get the hang of dealing with it

 

[ajk23az]

Okay, I'll try that. Thanks man.

 

[Yeagermeister]

Doubtful sounds like a hardware problem either the screen is going out, the blacklight or a cable is lose. On most laptop brands there are screws on the bottow and you take those out and you can pull up the keyboard gently and check for lose cables if you want to try that. If you are under warranty I use that. If you are not be carefull because there is a connector for the touchpad mouse they suck not impossible just a pain in the arse the first few times until you get the hang of dealing with it

I hate working on laptops. Too many tiny screws and fragile cables.

 

[Kangaroo]

I hate working on laptops. Too many tiny screws and fragile cables.

Toshiba was always the worse when it came to screws and laptops we always had a running joke if you put back together a Toshiba laptop and you did not have left over screws you put it together wrong.

I do not mess much with laptops or desktops anymore now that i do infrastructure support but dam some of these servers not so much screws but all the dam stuff stacked on top that you have to pull to replace one little part underneath