About a 10 days ago, the monitor on my HP pavillion dv9000 would not come on immediately. I had to restart the computer repeatedly before it was start working properly. I noticed the monitor would only fail to turn on if I closed the lid on my laptop. So for the last week, I could go into sleep mode, hibernate, or shutdown Window Vista without incident, as long as I did not close the lid.
I took my laptop on car ride all the way to the Appalachians. I drove over some really poor roads and as a result, hit a lot of potholes. I'm certain my laptop, even in it's case, was affected by the drive. Because when I got back home yesterday morning, the monitor would not turn on at all. The computer starts up fine, because I can hear the windows startup sounds. The monitor is just dead.
But somehow I managed to get the monitor working by my previous methods. However, now when I go into sleep mode, now the monitor won't turn on either. It only will turn on if I push the lid down to about a 30 degree angle. If it is any more open than that, then the monitor will not turn on. If I don't leave the lid down at 30 degrees until I get to the windows password screen, the picture on my monitor is just a jumbled gray color. There is no working picture on it.
I'm sure something is wrong with the video card. Am I right? What can I do about it? The computer is no longer under warranty.
I took my laptop on car ride all the way to the Appalachians. I drove over some really poor roads and as a result, hit a lot of potholes. I'm certain my laptop, even in it's case, was affected by the drive. Because when I got back home yesterday morning, the monitor would not turn on at all. The computer starts up fine, because I can hear the windows startup sounds. The monitor is just dead.
But somehow I managed to get the monitor working by my previous methods. However, now when I go into sleep mode, now the monitor won't turn on either. It only will turn on if I push the lid down to about a 30 degree angle. If it is any more open than that, then the monitor will not turn on. If I don't leave the lid down at 30 degrees until I get to the windows password screen, the picture on my monitor is just a jumbled gray color. There is no working picture on it.
I'm sure something is wrong with the video card. Am I right? What can I do about it? The computer is no longer under warranty.