Balnk scrren, blinking caps lock light
dv6 laptop showing black display when turned on, caps lock light blinking. I tried unplugging the power cord, removed battery as suggested, however, problem persists.
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Hi Suzieg,
I understand you’re getting a blank display when you turn on your laptop.
You mentioned the caps lock light blinking when you turn the computer on. Here is a link that will allow you to check and see if the blinking of those lights on the notebook, match what you see in this link . A lot of the time the lights can blink in a certain pattern, I would like you to take a look at the listing of blink codes and let me know if the laptop lights are blinking in that nature.
When you open the link go down to the section titled “ LED's near Caps Lock and Number Lock keys blink when starting notebook”.
Please respond back with your results.
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