Black Screen (Not Death Screen)

Ok, here's my problem. Every so often (More often now) my LCD screen would go black and become Non-Detected by my windows operating system. My external monitors all connect and can be detected but this one can not. I have checked my LCD Bulb and it is fine, my inverter is fine aswell and so is my graphics card. I know this because my screen was working yesterday and the screen was Detected then. I am doing an inverter check later on today and as for my graphics card, well it wouldn't be showing up on my external monitor if it were bad. I honestly have no earthly idea why this is happening but I am wondering if my computer needs to have a Reflow done on it. It is an Compaq Presario Cq61 and I purchased it in 2010. If anyone knows anything I would really enjoy the help. Thanks.

Dann91 wrote:
I am speaking about my Internal LCD screen not an external monitor. Every external monitor I connect to my laptop displays perfectly fine and can be Detected when i select "Screen Resolustion".
This is what happen If i put my laptop into hibernate for an hour or so and wake it up the screen will display SOMETIMES not all the times (Does not Happen Every Time). I have already replaced the Video Cable with another geniune cable. It did nothing. I checked the graphics chip and my Ram sticks, also found nothing wrong. I'm wondering if it could actually be the LCD screen itself or the Inverter that sends the power.
I don't think it is the LCD though and the reason behind that is because it still comes on occasinonally and when it comes on it STAYS on, there's no flickering of any sort, no turning off, no color changes, no stand stills or any types of problems until I have to shut down my computer.
I have called for support and the only thing they keep telling me is they'll have to look at it for 149.99$ the make and model of this laptop is a Compaq Presario CQ61 (2009)
This is what I meant. The internal vga cable. It could be a buggy vga driver. I had a netbook that had an issue when it came from hibernation and it was a bad graphics driver (Windows one). BTW: My Dv6 laptop went straight to BSOD after waking up from hybernantion. However, I don't use Windows so didn't bother much about it.
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