Computer went pitch black

Cat · Aug 5th 2012, 4:49am

Hey guys, recently my Toshiba Satellite L355D-02P01D had it's screen messed up. When I turned it on, the CPU and such works perfectly, but the Screen itself showed no sign of electricity. So if anyone knows this problem, please reply. I also tried the whole "Pull out battery and cable wire, hold power button for 30+ seconds, and plug In the cable and battery".

Eurydice · Aug 5th 2012, 5:29am

My old laptop did something like that. I think it's dead. Outright dead.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. Here's a gif of a cat to make up for it.

Major General Awesomeness · Aug 5th 2012, 5:33am

EURY STOP BEING UNHELPFUL!
You know if it's pitch black you can just format it

but be sure that there are no important information in that computer like your billing information or so and if there is just take it out and Roleplay as one of your favorite video game characters and DESTROY IT
Hope I'm being more helpful than eury

SilverKing7 · Aug 5th 2012, 5:38am

It probably did like mine, the backlight died. I've just been using a desktop monitor until I buy a new laptop. You could get a new light but replacing it is really complicated.

Cat · Aug 5th 2012, 5:40am

I will take it to get fixed, people thinks its just the screen light being a little messed up. Great thing I saved my most important Flash work into my external terrabyte hard drive.

ChristopherClever · Aug 5th 2012, 8:14am

Major General Awesomeness wrote:

EURY STOP BEING UNHELPFUL!
You know if it's pitch black you can just format it but be sure that there are no important information in that computer like your billing information or so and if there is just take it out and Roleplay as one of your favorite video game characters and DESTROY IT
Hope I'm being more helpful than eury

Reformatting it won't work if the screen isn't coming on. You need to at least be able to see it posting to BIOS to access a boot CD in the first place.
I'm with everyone else, I think it's either shorted out or the backlight has gone out on it. You probably haven't lost everything, you just need to take it somewhere
and get them to look over it. The only problem is, people typically charge outrageous prices for laptop repair due to its tedious nature.

karlsanada10 · Aug 5th 2012, 2:00pm

^Dat answer.

My screen did that too, however, it has a sign of electricity and the screen is a bit in static but with black lines, I have to connect it to a monitor to make it work.

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