Screen stays black when booting up on Gateway laptop

Have you tried a system restore/recovery?

HDD problem, try to fix boot record and test HDD with Hierens Boot CD

Sounds like the cd/dvd drive needs to be replaced if you are trying to boot from it.

try checking out to see if maybe you have a bad memory inside first. then if thats not the problem im gonna have to figure your hard drive might be going bad because of corrupt files and fragments.

Since you have video with an external monitor your lcd panel is going out.This is not hard to repair only costlyhttp://www.insidemylaptop.com/remove-lcd-screen-replace-inverter-board-acer-aspire-5100-laptop/

Try plugging the laptop into an external monitor to make sure the laptop is booting up properly. If it is unplug the monitor from the laptop; or if you know the laptop boots up fine and you get the windows audio when it boots and the initial starting beeps then forget the monitor. Shine a torch or light source on the screen and if you see a faint picture then the inverter on the screen has developed a fault.
jon

have you tried connecting to an external monitor?

remove the and test it H.D.D or change the RAM ,

Hi there.
Take the battery out and try to boot on AC power only, if it boots up, turn it back off and reinsert the battery and try to boot again.
If it still suffers from the same symptoms please post back for more advice.


Good luck

plz boot in safe mode and uninstall the display driver and boot in normally