Help, Laptop Blank Screen!

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My close friend recently had a panic attack on his beloved Lenovo notebook computer.

What type of attack?

I can tell you it is not as bad as a heart attack but it could be if you desperately need to use your notebook at that time.

What happen is that he had a blank screen upon boot up. When he got a blank screen and a lot of noise coming out of his CPU, as the same as any users, he pressed the panic button!

When a notebook computer hits a blank screen, there could a lot of causes but notably not a software issue.

Why not software?

My diagnostics is this:- You can still enter the BIOS software of your notebook computer if it is only the software related issue.

When a notebook hits blank screen, 90% of the chances are relation with the hardware.

It could be your motherboard, the LCD, the optical drive or others.

As for my friend’s situation, it is the RAM.

I was puzzled at first, but I decided to ask to try this remedy.

Since he got 2 slots of memory sticks attached, I’ve asked him to remove one of the sticks and run the notebook on one RAM stick.

The first one, a 1GB Kingston RAM DDR-533 shows no difference.

When he inserted the second RAM, the default 512mB DDR-3 by Lenovo, the boot-up process appears normally but a little slower though.

This shows that his Kingston 1GB RAM is faulty.

I’m not blaming Kingston for this but electronics products spoil quite easily these days.

Well, there’s a tip for you if you faced such encounter.

Till my next post ……… see ya…