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decembercapi
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Registered: ‎05-21-2011
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SL510, strange black screen display

Hi everyone. I am wondering if this is a quick fix problem I have going on or something I should take my computer back into the store I bought it from, since it is only about a week old at the moment.

 

Probably about a handful of times in the past week, my screen has just randomly gone black. If I am doing something, like watching a program that requires sound, the sound still works. Internet stays working. The screen comes back when I use the touchpad very quickly, but my display settings are changed when I get the screen to come back. Ok, scratch that...for the first time ever now while writing this message here, my computer just sent itself into hybernation mode or something while I was typing. That was strange. When it came back it also just reset my settings back to normal. (like, the color of the tabs, and the background desktop image). 

 

I am wondering whats going on here...my first thought is that I used to have a computer that would shut itself off when it was overheating...but...that computer felt quite hot...this doesn't.

 

Any ideas would be appreciated, thanks!

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Serge1410
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Re: SL510, strange black screen display

hey decembercapi,

since this unit is a week old, i would recommend doing an update of the system.

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-73445.html





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decembercapi
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Re: SL510, strange black screen display

What am I trying to update though? There seem to be a lot of options to about 20 + different driver updates...and when it comes to drivers I'm a little lost. 

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Serge1410
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Re: SL510, strange black screen display

i would recommend updating your display drivers , bios , power management and thinkvantage software/drivers





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ColonelONeill
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Re: SL510, strange black screen display

You can use System Update; it makes the process so much easier.
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