Death Screen! *Dun Dun DUUN*

A few months ago I suffered frequent "Blue Screen of Death
moments,after a while of cleaning things off my toshiba laptop and doin
a few virus scans and such the blue-screens stopped. Yesterday night
started listening to music on my laptop using it's own music player
Twice the screen went blank momentarily,I dismissed this for a temporar
issue and thought nothing of it as it carried on fine the rest of th
night
Today I started up my laptop and BANG,Blank black screen after I put i
my Administrator password
Then I took out the battery,restarted as normal and then later on whil
I was listening to music another blank screen came up though I coul
still hear my music going on in the backround. Then I had to restart i
as normal a few more times and noticed that the screen was so dark whe
I switched it on,that I could barely see anything on the screen though
could tell it was still running. It was almost as if someone had messe
around with the brightness. This type of black screen was different t
the normal blankscreens because then my laptop screen was TOTALLY blan
no matter what angle I looked at it,it would then go into
hibernation-type mode

Help me O' mighty Tech Support Forum. *PLEASE

 

Sure sounds like hardware failure. You can try troubleshooting it yourself,
take it to a competent local tech, or contact Toshiba tech support. If you
take it to someone local, don't use a BigComputerStore/GeekSquad type of
place.

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Hardware_Tshoot

Malke

 

I agree with Malke that this sounds like hardware, however can you make
100% sure that drivers are up to date.

Blue screens and crashes of that type can be driver problems, especially
video drivers. Unlike your average "Program" things like drivers can
interact directly with the hardware, so any problems with them can upset
the system so badly it makes error messages relating to the hardware
hard to interpret.