Screen turns black and returns with an orange tinted window with poor resolution

Im running on a Presario S6700NX. Windows-xp It has been running proper until about two weeks ago. Nothing has been added or taken from the system. However, lately I've been getting a black screen that last several seconds and when my window reappears however, It's with an orange tint and with very poor resolution. Several seconds later my window reappears with the proper resolution. This happens whether I'm running an application or not and it's continuous. I've searched microsoft knowledge base and I've gotten no response it's as if it's never happened to anyone else. So now I'm trying HP Forum in the hopes that someone out there may have encountered a similar problem or has heard of a simular situation. This is a cry for HELP. Please if anyone out there can help me it would be deeply appreciated. I want to give my thank you beforehand and hope for a response.

xi-berger wrote:
@jck & @awaller well not literally every other time, it occurs randomly. sometimes I can work for like an hour or as long as I want and nothing happens, sometimes after 5 minutes *boom* the screen goes black, except of one column with random pixels, i tried to switch to a different console with ctrl+alt+(F1-F6) but it did not work...
do you know where I have to look for errors? I also tried to reinstall the drivers, but it did not help..
I see something like this on my T420 Thinkpad sometimes. It turns out the backlight is just going out. I'm reluctant to say it's a kernel issue and not hardware - I have vague memories of it happening on Windows 7 as well, but that was years ago ...
It happens on Arch and Debian definitely, and the following fix works on both for me:
Opening a terminal (which I have bound to a key) and running "xset dpms force off", then moving the mouse or something to wake the display again brings it back to light.
Try that the next time it happens and see if it helps. Will at least confirm whether it's the same issue as me or not.

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