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Computer turns on but screen wont

When i turn the power on i can hear it running and lights flash on the keyboard but the screen stays blank.Help? 4 out of 5 times (sometimes more than that) my computer will turn on but screen will remain blank. Does anyone know if that's a hardware problem? Or is it a driver? The laptop is 2 years old, the problem started couple months ago. It only happened one time at first and now it's worse. I had to put it in the hibernate mode instead of turning it off but now that's not working anymore. When i come out the hibernate mode screen won't turn on.

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First,If you are running windows vista,This can be due to an update that has your video driver and windows video driver running at the same time.

Hardware would be the invertor board is bad.

Ttry to start with F8 and choose start in vga mode,If this allows you to start normally,go to the device manager and update the video drivers

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