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This morning I turned on my laptop (Dell Inspiron 710m), went away for a few minutes, came back, and the screen was blank (i.e. just black), but the power/Wi Fi lights were on and the processing light was flashing. Puzzled, as I had never seen that before, so turned it off (pressed and held on the ON button) and this time watched it start up - no problems this time.

Any ideas why it went blank? Its a little over a year old and have had no problems with it whatsoever; hope its not a sign of things to come.. :(
 
Do you have a Screen Swap button [or whatever it is called :p] - may have to press it along with a FN key or something? Used to have this sometimes on my laptops, although not Dell.
 
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Nope, I don't have that button.

One possibility is when I turned off the laptop last night it didn't turn off properly (i.e. still up) so when I pressed the ON button today it had no effect because it was still on. But that doesn't explain why its blank though..
 
Could be caused by static if you have not been switching it off through Windows menu, and just by on button for few seconds. I only found this out when mine started and went off by itself.
 
Could be caused by static if you have not been switching it off through Windows menu, and just by on button for few seconds. I only found this out when mine started and went off by itself.

Nope, I always close it down through the Start menu.. nevermind, guess I'll leave it until it happens again.. :confused:
 
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