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Laptop Turns on but no display

julianspiteri
By julianspiteri
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I have dell laptop which has been at me for quite a few years now. Last night, I put it on sleep and when I came to switch it back on this morning, the power button and indicator lights turned on, and the fan was spinning, but the display remained completely blank. I tried turning on with each stick of ram individually but it still didn't turn on. Also l, where usually pressing the power button would put the computer on sleep mode, it is now completely shutting down the computer when pressed. Also, it might be useful to know that I had replaced the HDD in the laptop with an ssd, and it has been running fine with the replacement for quite a few months now. Any help would be appreciated 

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Hard to trouble shoot anything when you cant see the screen, do you have a spare monitor around that you could plug into it? 

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^ strongly agree. 

 

 

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if I had it in my hands, I would be able to find out what is wrong, but since I dont have it in my hands, I can not help that much, but it could be the screen cable that is broken.

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No unfortunately I don't have a spare monitor, but when I plugged it into my TV via HDMI the tv did not detect the laptop

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What were you doing when it did this? Also any experience opening laptops?

 

“Does Yggdrasil drink from it because it is the Well of Wisdom, or is it the Well of Wisdom because Yggdrasil drinks from it?” 
― J. Aleksandr Wootton, Her Unwelcome Inheritance

CPU Intel 6700k @4.7ghz  Motherboard Asus Rampage Formula VIII RAM 16gb (4x4) Corsair Dominator Platinums GPU Evga Hybrid 980ti

Case ThermalTake X71 Storage 512gb 950 Samsung M.2 PSU 1000Hxi Corsair Cooling 115i Corsair CLC 280mm
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