HomeI have an HP Omnibook 6100 notebook, it was given to my niece as a gift. The original owner was a medical tech so she erased everything of the hard drive I do not know if she used format or just erase, anyway now the notebook acts like it is booting but the monitor is blank I tried the recovery disks no help. I made a support disk no help. I am almost sure that the video driver is gone but I can’t find a way to reinstall it. I went to the HP site and they have their advice no help. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I did try an external monitor – no help.
You’ve tried connecting an external monitor and didn’t get any image on it, correct? It tells me that most likely there is nothing wrong with the LCD screen. Probably something else is going on.
The notebook starts booting and the screen is blank right from the beginning, correct? If that’s the case, then it is not a video driver related problem. When you have a bad or corrupted video driver, you still should see an image on the screen when you turn on the notebook. With a bad video driver the screen might turn black when Windows starts loading but not before that.
Try this. Start the laptop without the hard drive installed and see if you can get any image on the screen. If the laptop starts with video when the hard drive is removed, probably you have a bad hard drive. Maybe the original owner damaged the hard driver before she gave this notebook to you.
January 8th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
hello, i have a dell inspiron 5150 laptop, and it was previously owned before. but as i was using it one day the computer whent into its normal sleeper mode(you know when you stop using it for a good while) so it goes into sleeper mode and then i touch the mouse pad and the screen goes completly dim. i went on using it with an old pc monitor. and somehow my brother fixed it once. but then it happend again and now i cant get it to go back to how it was. its just really dim, like i can barely read the screen. any help would be appreciated. thanks
December 4th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Kassandra,
Can you see the hard drive LED flashing, like it’s working?
Start the laptop with an external monitor again and try to switch video from internal mode to external with Fn and F4 key combination. Hold down Fn and press on F4 a few times. Still nothing?
December 4th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Hi,
I have an hp pavilion dv 2000. When I boot it up the screen is totally black but the lights on the keyboard still light up as well as the start button. I can also hear the laptop running. I even tried to hook it up to an external monitor and still got a black screen. I was told it might be the motherboard? Any help with this I’d really appreciate. Thank you.
Kassandra.
November 22nd, 2007 at 6:40 pm
I am having close to the same problem. I think it is my video card but I am not sure. I have a Toshiba Satellite P100 model PSPA3U-12X01U. When I turn on my notebook, my screen powers on but I get no visuals only a lit black screen. It does work correctly when plugged into an external monitor however. My video card is not fully integrated into the motherboard and is a Nvidia Geforce Go 7600 G73M. I wasn’t sure if that was the problem, if so how can it be replaced as it does not have standard PCI-E, PCI, or AGP connections? Thanks for your time.
May 12th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
i called hp about it and they told me to take it off and try it again…i did it and the same thing happened…. so now i’m guessing its the memory stick.. im going to try purchasing a new one and ill come back with the results..thanks
May 4th, 2007 at 8:18 pm
Carlos,
I think the problem could be somehow related to the memory module. If you have two memory slots, move the memory stick from one slot to another. Find a known good memory module and test the laptop again.
Also you can try this. Unplug the laptop LCD cable from the motherboard and test the laptop with an external monitor. If it works fine with the external monitor when the LCD is unplugged, something is wrong with the LCD or cable.
May 4th, 2007 at 7:26 am
hi im having this same exact problem on my hp zt300. i tried taking off the hard drive and its still blank, so i placed it back in. But when i take off my battery and ram for a couple minutes and put it back in the computer starts normally then after 5 mins or so the screen starts flickering everywhere and soon becomes frozen. after a restart the computer goes back to a blank screen… any help??
thanks