No Laptop Video Display 1

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I have a Slimnote p88t, 64 Meg ram that has a display attitude. When I boot I get a display of the bios, drives in the system etc. Once it has completed the display goes very dim I’m talking some serious dim. If I attach another monitor and using the F5 function I am able to see a display.. Looking good..I have gone into the bios and turned off all of the power saving settings. I have updated with new video drivers, I have tried different resolutions, tried booting into safe mode... I got frustrated with it and put in away for a month or so....deciding it was time to get another opinion I took it to a computer repair shop.. friend of a friend thing.. The tech hooked it up and with the touch of Midas the laptop display worked perfectly .. I mean this guy didn’t do anything but boot it up… I got it home.. and started it up it ran for about an hour and then died…so now I am back to square one… sounds like is an overheating thing.. however in the past leaving it off for days does not help.. Sounds like a memory thing…any Ideas on how to proof this out?

 

[apex1x]

Are you running it off of batteries?
If so, maybe it's a problem with your batteries not having enough charge.
If you're worried about memory, simply swap in some known working RAM.
~Apex1x
Miller's Law:
You can't tell how deep a puddle is until you step into it.

 

[gargouille]

Sounds to me as if the display itself is going south. IF it were otherwise, there'd be none when you hooked up a monitor.
Having spent considerable time in a mfg. environment, machines that malfunction for the user will work perfectly when the maintenance guys walk up, so that's par for the course.
Make sure the fan is working correctly. I'm running across lots of laptops that run hot. Not good, but a common thread. Some of them it's obvious: the fan makes noise or is slow turning up to speed...and replacing it does the trick.
There are lots of free memory testers about...use 1 of them to check it out.
Here's a fabulous link to lots of different things geek...and you'll find memory testers among them.

http://lists.gpick.com/pages/System_Maintenance_Tools.htm