Black Screen

My friend just downloaded drivers for his video card. They where right from the Nvidia site and for the right card and everything.
After it installed it told him to restart, which he did but when it booted back up the screen was black. It didn't turn on at all(the screen).
Cant get to BIOS or safemode, well maybe he can but the screen is black so you wouldn't know.
When you plug a monitor in you can get it to work in safemode.
If you try to run it in normal mode the screen turns black after the loading windows thing is done.
Before this he wasn't able to use it in normal either because the screen would just be a bunch of colors
the startup isnt right either... it flashes some random things, it may be text but its too fat to realy tell. then if you hit F8 the menu for booting comes up.

Also once in awile it says you sould system restore when you start up. If you do it nothing changes

I think that it i whipe all the graphics drivers on it and install new ones it will work. Im not too sure how to delete the old ones though.

 

I tired everything you said, it all worked.
but did not fix the problem.

It will still only work on anther monitor and in safe mode.
The back light does come on, but nothing else

It has a Nvidia Geforce GO 7600

 

I just got it to boot withlow resolution settings!

also only on another monitor

 

its 32 bit
thats the driver i downloaded
it doesn't change anything

 

I downloaded the drivers, when i tried to run setup it said that it couldn't find compatible hardware.
is there a way to manually install the drivers?

 

When i do that it says the the drivers are up to date
i don't have any drivers installed, its just the default windows one.

 

So it seems to have fixed its self...
I decided to work on it again.. just mess around... was booting up.. then noticed that it was on both screens... everything works perfectly fine now...
i did get the older drivers to load but it didn't make a difference earlier.

I still don't trust it though gonna restart it and see what happens.

 

I brought the laptop back to him, we started it up, worked fine no problems.
He tried a little later to use it but its back to the way it was.
You can only use it on safe mode.
He also said that it keeps trying to read a dick, even though there is none in the drive, it will spin up and the light blinks then stops.

 

He was saying that his laptop gets very hot, i noticed this too while working on it.
Im guessing that the heat fried his graphics card.
Tomorrow were going to see if you can take it out and hope there is onboard graphics.

If not do you know a place to buy laptop graphics cards? newegg doesn't have any.

 

Try www.tigerdirect.com

 

From my experience, hardware (graphics) can overheat because of incorrect drivers.

Have the chipset drivers been updated (or even installed)?

Is it set for using an external screen/projector, rather than "clone" of the screens? You say it works using an external monitor. Is it a manufacturer's setting? (My Lenovo uses an Fn + F# set of keystrokes for making a different combination of screens, eg, laptop screen alone, laptop + external monitor, laptop + projector).

My best suggestion, get the drivers from the laptop manufacturer's website.

Matt

 

Aisukaze,

You may be well advised to investigate (Google for starters) any problems with the specific model laptop and NVidia. Although you never mention the manufacturer or model #, there were several laptop manufacturers that experienced overheating issues with NVidia. Your friend's computer may have been included in a recall.

Good Luck

 

I just installed the chipset drivers, not sure if they where before. It didnt change anything
Its set to clone the screen, but only shows up on a separate monitor now. It used to just be the laptop screen.

I attempted to find the card but there is no panel to it... only the hard drive and CMOS.

I had already done some googling, thats actually how i found this site. I haven't looked for this specific model though, ill do it now. Thanks

 

From what iv seen there is a know problem with this series of laptop. There is a way to replace the laptop but this exact model isn't on the list of eligible models.

I also took apart the laptop, i couldn't get to the graphics card though. There was something still attached but i wouldn't find any screws or clips anywhere...