HP Pavillion G60t laptop Screen Problem?

Hello everyone,

I have a 2 year old HP G60t laptop. Roughly about 2 months ago I booted up the computer and was greeted with a series of gray bars, both vertical and horizontal. I am able to use the laptop on an external monitor / HD TV with no issues, so I'm assuming the mother board is fine, just a screen replacement would be recommended.

About a week ago I booted up the computer, and to my surprise that monitor started working again. I saw the HP logo start up, saw Windows 7 start and was able to use my laptop like normal again- or so I thought. It seems that if I restart my laptop after it successfully boots up, it goes back to the gray screen with bars, but if I do a shutdown, let it sit for an hour or so, it will start up, no problems.

Does anyone have an idea of what would cause my laptop to behave like it is? ( besides its a HP laptop! lol!) it seems like there may be a loose connection? or is this tease just the signs that my laptop is dying a slow painful death?

 

Evan,

Bear with me I'm not the tech savvy person most users may be on here, but the packing slip listed an Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD - For Core 2 Duo Processors. in the laptop.

I always use the laptop on a hard surface so it can "breath ", so I don't think its overheating.

If I kept the laptop on and never shut it off, or restarted, I'd be fine. But everyone knows, there's always going to be an update that needs a restart, and that is where my problem lies.

 

Restart is different from a shutdown and startup. It definitely needs an hour or more? You can't shut down and start up again a minute or two later? That sounds like a heat problem, but it might be combined with power/electronic components.

Do you see the HP splash screens when you turn it on? If not, it won't be a driver problem. Drivers are only loaded after you see the Windows loading screen.

If it gets the grey bars from the very first screen (HP splash screen), it is a computer problem, as opposed to a Windows/drivers problem.

Matt

 

Don't quote me on it, but I know restarting it, makes the screen "freak out" but actually any turning on of the computer after shutting it off for a while will give me the gray screen.

I recently went through and made sure the driver were up to date, I hit the Intel website and updated those drivers. I also had to do a registry edit, because the OS stopped seeing my cd/dvd drive!

Overall lately (the past week), it seems to be more stable than it was, I can restart , get the HP splash screen, and fire up Windows 7. So maybe it was the graphics card drivers? or just my HP giving a few moments of computing time before it's time to move on?

 

Excellent! Thanks for all the advice, I will take all of this information and do some more testing. Everyone has been very helpful!

Thanks!