Hi,
I am running Windows Vista Home Premium on my Dell laptop. Recently my laptop screen has been suddenly going blank by itself. When the laptop runs fine, the screen suddenly runs into red & black strips, & then turns totally black. After numerous attempts of restarting the machine, sometimes I succeed in getting the laptop back to normal. This has been happening quite often recently.
This actually started a few months back. After wandering through different forums and suggested solutions, I think, I correctly found out that the problem was not with the screen (as I could see the same problem with display even after connecting my laptop to a TV screen). As suggested on one of the forums (lost the link
...) I installed an updated nvidia display driver. That seemed to help for a few days.... However, the problem is back & occurs severely more often.
I have very important (two years worth) research work on this laptop, & can't afford to lose it. Does anyone have any idea of what's going wrong here? Can anybody help me resolve this problem and bring my laptop back on track?
Basic system information:
- x86 (32-bit)
- Original installed OS
- OEM
- System is 3 years old
- OS installation is 3 years old
Thank you,
Shirish
I am running Windows Vista Home Premium on my Dell laptop. Recently my laptop screen has been suddenly going blank by itself. When the laptop runs fine, the screen suddenly runs into red & black strips, & then turns totally black. After numerous attempts of restarting the machine, sometimes I succeed in getting the laptop back to normal. This has been happening quite often recently.
This actually started a few months back. After wandering through different forums and suggested solutions, I think, I correctly found out that the problem was not with the screen (as I could see the same problem with display even after connecting my laptop to a TV screen). As suggested on one of the forums (lost the link
...) I installed an updated nvidia display driver. That seemed to help for a few days.... However, the problem is back & occurs severely more often.I have very important (two years worth) research work on this laptop, & can't afford to lose it. Does anyone have any idea of what's going wrong here? Can anybody help me resolve this problem and bring my laptop back on track?
Basic system information:
- x86 (32-bit)
- Original installed OS
- OEM
- System is 3 years old
- OS installation is 3 years old
Thank you,
Shirish
