Satellite A300-114 - Won't reinitate after screen shuts down

Hello.
I have a Toshiba Satellite A300-114 running with Windows Vista Home Premium.
It was working fine until two weeks ago, now, after some time of inactivity, the screen shuts down and it won't turn on agian. The Hard drive light blips but the Screen stays black. This is becoming more often.
Does anybody have any ideia what the problem is?
Thanks :)

Sorry, I'll try to write with a more correct english.
My problem was, when I leave my laptop alone, the display shutts off, the hard drive light under the touchpad keeps bleeping, but what ever I do the system doesn't "come back". I have to hard boot the computer.
Now, i've tried with different power settings, and the same happens, and I also found out that when i have the "Turn off the display" set for never, the computer also starts working after leaving it alone for a while.
I'm also not able to shut down the computer, I get the blue screen and the message "Closing" and nothing happens
Message was edited by: jjginga

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