MSI GX701 X - Dark Screen Issue

Hello everyone, I have MSI GX701 X laptop for a year or so and I'm having the following issue:
Last night I was using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS x64, I accidently closed my laptop and after that it was hibernating, I think, and I tried to start it up again even though I had some problems after a few tries it actually booted up and I choose Ubuntu from Dual Boot menu again. I entered Ubuntu and everything was completely normal, after 20 minutes I shut it down and everything was as usual. I woke up this morning and tried to turn on my laptop, from the start everything was dark, including the MSI logo and the boot menu. I choose Windows 7 from the boot menu and it started up but the screen is soo dark that I can barely see the login screen, I tried with Ubuntu and it was the same, I almost can't see a thing.
What could be the problem here, I was reading on some forums and people who had this issue flashed their BIOS, should I do that? Or maybe upgrade it?
I have a warranty so I can send it to MSI but I want to try to correct the problem alone first. It's definitely a hardware error and I'm not so skilled with hardware so I'm asking you. Thank you in advance.
Regards, Dusan

Is a bit long, usually 5 minutes is enough.
Anyway, glad it's solved.
Ps. pressing powerbutton without power can speed it up.

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