Questions tagged [blank-screen]
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How to turn off screen with shortcut in Linux?
Since my monitor takes an awful lot of time to turn back on after being physically turned off, I'm looking for a command or a simple utility to turn off my screen with a shortcut. Setting a black ...
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how to make one screen pitch black without turning it off / disabling it?
I have two monitors and I want only one of them to be pitch black temporarily for a certain amount of time every now and then.
I don't want to turn the monitor off because then the computer stops ...
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Black Screen when Computer Boots
I'm having a serious problem with my computer; I think I've narrowed it down to the motherboard, but I'd like a second opinion before I spend the money. I have no idea what's wrong.
Before I moved ...
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CMD Prompt is blank, no text
When i open .cmd, .bat files or cmd, it shows as A blank window, with no text.
My questions :
What causes this problem?
How can I fix it?
Some screenshots to give more info about my problem :
When ...
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Blank Screen After Login on Windows 7
When unlocking a Windows 7 computer the screen briefly (less than a second) goes blank before showing the screen (this is normal). Abound once a month (but sometimes within 24 hours) when I unlock my ...
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I cannot boot Ubuntu 10.04 on battery power. What do I do?
Okay, so as the title says, I run Ubuntu 10.04. The problem is that when I boot it on battery, it doesn't come on. I see a blank screen completely. Sometimes, the Ubuntu splash is visible for a couple ...
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Computer runs but monitor is on power saving mode?
This stuff rarely happens, but when it does I simply restart my PC then it works fine. But today after several restart attempts it seems to be stuck.
I tried removing the video card then switched to ...
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Windows 8 sleep, blank screen on resume
I use a SONY VAIO laptop VPCS116FA that came pre-installed with Windows 7. I have upgraded to Windows 8. The experience has been good so far but I am facing a frustrating problem. Whenever, I put my ...
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Why does my Samsung Chronos 7 not boot anymore after installing Ubuntu?
I was just installing ubuntu on my new samsung chronos 7 NP700Z3C, the laptop was stuck at booting ubuntu so I pushed shutdown button for 5 seconds and turned it off. Now it does not boot. It just ...
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Windows 10 sudden blank screen
Lately i re-installed Windows 10 to get a fresh OS. After i have installed and updated everything including drivers, it worked fine until few hours later, screen went blank with no cursor or anything ...
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Chrome: Finding Blank Screens When Switching Back to Tabs
I'm using Chrome 36.0.1985.125 m on a 64-bit ASUS R500V laptop, running Windows 8.1.
Yesterday, I uninstalled Chrome, keeping my data, and re-installed it. I'd been having some problems with it, ...
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My screen remains black after the night, but windows seems to be running ok
I've been experiencing this strange problem lately, basically i leave my desktop PC running all the night and when i come back in the morning i have a black screen and i can't bring windows on.
Today ...
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Could it be black screen on an otherwise good laptop without hard drive?
The M.2 SSD hard drive of my laptop is physically damaged: a visual damage is seen in the middle of the card, and the chip that appears damaged gets very hot while attempting to boot.
Both with and ...
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HP laptop, "General system board failure", what next?
I have an HP Pavilion DM1-3101ea laptop with an integrated AMD E-350 APU. Basically the same as DM1Z, if it is of any help. I have Ubuntu 12.04 on it. The problem appeared as follows: i tried to send ...
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Samsung LCD 214T gets stuck in power saving mode
I've had this monitor (Samsung 214T) for more than 5 years, and had to replace the capacitors a couple years ago. It still works beautifully, but it's always had a similar problem that when I ...
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How to control screen blanking in Xfce
I have a small cluster of machines running Xubuntu, all recently updated to 22.04. The update caused oddities, different on each machine, but those disappeared after a restart. But now I'm faced ...
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Any Google search results page gives me a blank screen in Google Chrome. Bing and Yahoo both work
Any Google search results page gives me a blank screen. The search results are there; I can click on them blindly. I cannot see the page at all.
I've tried multiple browsers, so the problem is not ...
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On-board motherboard graphics no longer working after installing graphics card
I recently purchased an ASUS GTX 1050 and installed it. When plugged into the graphics card I get a blank screen, which is to be expected, as I have yet to install my drivers. To install my drivers I ...
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Running Solaris x86. I cannot see the login window
I'm running Solaris 10 1/13 (x86) on a HP EliteBook 8470p laptop. I log into the CDE desktop. Everything (audio, video and network) seems to be running ok until I logout. When I logout, the screen ...
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Chrome, Firefox and IE all blank pages
IE, Chrome and Firefox are, no matter what page I go to, coming up blank. No content whatsoever.
If you view source in all three browsers it is blank.
Yet, if you use Wireshark the appropriate ...
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Laptop not opening..black coloured screen with just mouse cursor moving
Laptop configuration:
32 bit operating system
2038 MB RAM
Windows Vista Home Basic
Intel Core 2 Duo
Problem:
I am not able to open my laptop...nothing appears, just microsoft logo with loading bars. ...
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Occasional Blank (black, but on) Screen - Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS (x86 64-bit)
I'm not a completely new user of Ubuntu/Linux, but I'm still by far a novice.
I also am not 100% certain what all information is needed (and/or how to get it), so please let me know what I'm missing.
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Dell Latitude E6410 blank screen
The culprit: Dell Latitude E6410 with Intel HD graphics and Bios A13 (latest)
The OS: Windows 7 Enterprise 64bit
The issue: Installing graphics drivers causes the internal LCD to go blank. ...
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Blank screen all the time
A relative of mine has some problems with the computer. The screen is blank all the time (thus you can't enter bios, ...).
This happened after a computer restart, before it used to work normally. ...
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Laptop backlight intermittently working
Like the title suggests. I have an intermittent issue with the back-light not working when the machine starts up.
The screen still displays graphics just very dimly. I checked the cables and they ...
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Why is my screen not turning on after building a new computer?
All the BIOS beeps are solid, everything is looking good. I have built computers in the past and everything looks solid with this installation.
Is there something that I need to do to get my screen ...
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While browsing Chrome, I am seeing a blank/partial webpage,especially when I visit Google.com or some other site under Google
I have been noticing this consistently on Chrome. I have Windows 11 on my Office Laptop and version of Chrome is 102.0.5005.115.
For example, here is how Chrome looks like on my PC.
I have tried a lot ...
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Benq G2420HDBL + Radeon RX580: blank screen
Benq G2420HDBL works fine with Radeon R9 270. But when I connect it to the computer with Radeon RX 580 some bad things happened: in BIOS setup it works fine and shows all texts and graphics up to ...
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I've lost my display (after trying to send it to another screen)
I have lost the display on my primary screen. I wanted to test sharing my desktop with my TV screen, and I have done it before, but this time I forgot to connect my TV to the home network, and when I ...
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Output changes from DVI-D to DVI-A during boot process - any way to force Windows 7 to use DVI-D?
I'm running Windows 7 through ATI HD5400 into HP2335 monitor.
I can manually switch betwen an analog DVI and a digital DVI source on this monitor.
Both BIOS and POST sequence work fine through the ...
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Blank blue screen with cursor Windows 11
What happened: Blank blue screen with mouse cursor when unlocking PC (this doesn't always happen) No apps show a GUI.
What could fix the problem temporarily: Rebooting the computer or signing out and ...
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Sometimes Linux doesn't boot at all (not even GRUB, no sign of life)
Now I only have Linux (an Ubuntu flavor) on my laptop, but the same problem appeared some time ago when I still had a dual boot setup (Linux and Windows). What happens is very strange, because it ...
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Upon bootup, screens stay black SOMETIMES (windows issue?)
Sometimes after booting up windows, my screens will just stay black. They do have a signal, but its just backlit black. No mouse cursor. No input reaction.
There is no rhyme or reason to it, there is ...
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Why Is My GUI Screen Blank On Linux Startup When I Can Still See & Use The Login Screen?
I’m not very experienced with Linux (at all), so please forgive me if I am using terms incorrectly.
I am running Mint on my laptop (an old Dell). I had no issues until I downloaded Zoom yesterday. ...
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Chrome displays black tab and the title is 'Untitled'
When I opened Google Chrome, my tab was like this
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What I have tried:
I have tried going into Incognito.
I have tried other questions related like this one.
How do I fix this? Do I have to reinstall ...
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Second monitor goes straight to power save mode on start up
I've been using two monitors fine for a few months now but after a windows update one of my monitors is stuck in power save mode.
When pressing one of the physical buttons on it, it says there is no ...
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Can't open custom websites on chrome and firefox - connection is not secure blank page
It doesn't matter if I use chrome or firefox, I can not open pages like analytics.google.com or mailtrack.io. On both browsers the same. I can see that browsers shows me a blank page with no eource ...
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Monitor suddenly went to sleep and I can't wake it up
I think that's GPU problem: I was playing game and then screen turned black and said 'going to sleep mode'. And I can't wake it up. I've tried restart PC (it works), change monitor cable port, ...
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Permanent Blank Screen after lid close? -Ubuntu 14.04
Can you guys be of assistance? Ubuntu Newbie here.
Hp M6 Envy laptop
I closed my lid to move with my laptop and by the time (10 mins) i opened it the screen was totally blank not black , blank. I ...
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Windows 10 install went to a black screen
I had a Windows 8.1 laptop PC and wanted to install Windows 10 on it. I used the tool from Windows to do so, and it was all going fine, left home when it was about 30% complete with the install. When ...
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Windows 7 Blank/Black Screen after Startup on AMD Radeon 7000 Series
I am tryting to fix a pc in my office, it's on Windows 7 64Bit, Core2Duo Processor and 4GB of Ram. Problem is when I try to boot, after the windows logo, there's only a blank/black screen. How ever ...
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Monitor fails randomly
I have an HP Pavillion 27xi LED IPS monitor that randomly fails and fails in different ways. In this I mean that some times it works for 30 seconds then goes black with the power light still on. Other ...
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Blank Screen after logging in locally after RDP to Windows 7 PC
Several users work from home once a day. They RDP to their workstations (running Windows 7) from home and then when they arrive in the office the next day, they login locally again.
When they login ...
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Screen randomly goes blue/black/white
Problem
Randomly, while using my computer, the monitor goes dark grey/almost black, or it goes white with faint grey vertical lines, or it goes blue with black vertical lines. It's as if the computer ...
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windows 7 monitor instantly resumes from power off
It seems that some service or program is preventing my monitor from going into power save mode but I cannot find a way to dig down the cause.
Does anybody know a way to find out which event may be ...
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How to disable gnome "Blank screen"
I am using SUSE Linux with gnome-2. My screensaver runs for 5 minutes and the screen goes blank after that. I want to disable the "Blank screen".
I tried the following commands:
$ setterm -blank 0
$...
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Screen Stays Blanked When Locked
System Specs:
Dell Latitude
Core i7
8GB ram
500GB HDD
Video Adapters:
NVidia NVS 4200M &
Intel Built-in Graphics
Operating System:
Windows 7 Enterprise
Active Monitors:
Laptop Monitor, VGA ...
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Power Supply may be going out
Could a screen go black after boot up or near boot-up due to the case Power Supply not putting out enough juice to run the computer when the OS comes on?
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Get black screen at logon/welcome?
I turn on my computer and screen seems to be working, but as soon as it comes to the screen where I am suppose to put in my password I get a black screen, except for the momentary message from monitor:...
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Dell Vostro 1520 blank screen output after screen replacement
I ordered a replacement screen from Dell after an unfortunate accident and once installed I can't get it to work. I only get a blank screen with cursor on corner. If I use an external monitor then ...