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.
May 8th, 2012 at 6:00 am
i had a laptop ( toshiba ) i forgot its model… but my problem here is that when i turn on the laptop, the lcd will just shall i say. it will just flash like it’s going to start but everything turns dark.. but the power’s led is on and also with the fan. please help me solve this problem….
March 2nd, 2012 at 12:16 pm
@ Adrian,
Do you mean Windows OS boots fine but all icons and files are missing from the desktop? Is it what you are talking about?
This could be virus infection. Probably all icons and files are still there but hidden.
Here’s something to try.
1. Open Control Panel and click on Folder Options.
2. Click on View tab.
3. Select Show hidden files, folders and drives. Click Apply and OK.
Can you see files and icons on the desktop now?
March 1st, 2012 at 6:29 am
I have a 7720g Acer that boots fine into Windows 7 but there is nothing on the screen, from post to windows. If I search an mp3 in Windows, I can get it to play, everithing works fine but nothing is shown on screen. External monitor is not working with VGA but haven’t tried the DVI connection. Could be the video card ?
January 17th, 2012 at 2:09 pm
@ Komolo,
It’s hard to tell what’s going on without looking at the laptop. I hope you didn’t short the motherboard.
Have you tried the following? Unplug AC adapter, remove battery, push on the power button. After that plug in the AC adapter and try turning it on again.
January 14th, 2012 at 7:53 am
sound was not coming out of my Toshiba satellite (i dropped it falling to its headphone jack leavig a piece inside but managed to removed it) so i started tinkering with a headphone attempting to repair it, just as i inserted the pin it went off and could not boot ever again, only the LED Comes on but no cooling fan
November 13th, 2011 at 11:49 am
@ Ciberbob,
Minimize the laptop as much as you can. Remove the battery, DVD drive, hard drive, wireless card, etc… Disconnect the keyboard. In other words, disassemble the laptop to barebone system: motherboard, CPU, memory.
Try turning it on in this basic configuration. If still nothing, this could be motherboard failure. I assume it’s not memory because you tested the laptop with each memory module separately.
Take a look at this tutorial: http://www.laptoprepair101.com/laptop/2008/06/14/laptop-dead-troubleshoot-the-problem/
November 13th, 2011 at 2:56 am
I do have same problem like Danny. K50AB not powering up. After pressing power button, button light up, fun starts and cd-rom blinks but that is all. No keyboard response, tried external monitor. Does not seems to charge battery and on only battery power does nothing at all but battery was ok on last boot up. Tryed removing memory modules with no changes. Disconnecting BIOS battery – no change. What else to try?
November 10th, 2011 at 6:58 pm
@ Danny,
This could be memory related failure. Try reseating memory modules one by one. Test the laptop with each memory module separately. If one of them bad, the laptop will start properly with another module.
November 10th, 2011 at 2:16 pm
Hey there. I got a problem with my asus k50ab. The laptop starts but the screen doesn’t turn on. And the keyboard lights are off. I’ve got a ATI radon hd4570 in. The only thing I can do is turn it off after pressing the off button for a few seconds. Can u please help me put?
April 17th, 2011 at 9:27 am
Andrew,
First, I would try removing memory modules one by one. It’s possible that one of the modules failed and the laptop will not start because of that.
Test the laptop with each memory module separately. Try installing them in different slots.
It’s possible that you have a problem with one of the video cards.
I guess the laptop will automatically use the discrete card when it’s installed. Is it easy to remove the discrete card? Maybe the laptop will switch to the embedded video card when the discrete card removed.
You can try barebone approach. Disassemble the laptop as much as you can. Remove battery, DVD drive, hard drive, wireless card, etc… Leave only main parts: motherboard, memory, CPU and probably discrete video card (if you cannot remove it). Disconnect LCD cable from the motherboard (or video card) and test the laptop with an external monitor. Can you get image on the external monitor this way? If not, it’s possible you have faulty motherboard. I hope not.
Good luck!
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