Laptop Screen Stays Black after closing...forever????

Tried hitting Fn+F8?

Depending on what model you have, there may be a small push button near the power button. This is what tells the OS that the lid has closed. Make sure it isn't stuck.

the little button is not jammed, but i will try the fn-f8 the next time it happens.. we'll see if that works thanks

 

had this problem when i used bad drivers.

installed newer and not so beta drivers and the problem was solved.

Mine does the same thing but not when I close the screen, only when the laptop shuts off the display due to the power settings.

I have to use function-escape to suspend it then turn it back on to get the display working again. I've had three sets of video drivers that have all done the same thing. It's a 9100 with the 9700 video card.

ive found problems like this and worse with bad drivers. try upgrading your drivers, or even going back a few versions in the next drivers. prince of persia wouldnt run on my laptop, kept crashing , so i put in 3 newer drivers , all with the same result, then i put in a real old driver and heyhey...it works

Nice, my previous post was deleted since I simulated the harsher form of "Darn."

In any case, I'm still having the same problem using any driver set I can find. I've also tried updating the bios. The problem only seems to happen after I have suspended the computer and turned it back on. If I have just turned it on it will come back from blanking the screen without a problem. I'm also having a weird problem with the power settings. I keep setting it to never turn off the screen while plugged in and only go to the screen saver but the settings reset every time I power the computer down. I'm not sure if the problems are related but it would seem likely.

Anyway, I'll probably wind up sending it in when I can but I need this thing too much for the time being. Hopefully some software fix will come out before that happens.