T61 6457-CTO power on screen black
When I push start, Power On icon is green but screen is black whether started with battery only, ac adapter, or ac adapter with battery out. T-61 6457WM9.
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Welcome to the forum!
This is your machine as it left the factory:
Based 6457-CTO: T7500(2.2GHz), 2GB RAM, 80GB 5400rpm HD, 15.4in 1280x800 LCD, 128MB nVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M, CDRW/DVDRW, Intel 802.11abg wireless, Modem, 1Gb Ether, UltraNav, Sec Chip, FPR, 6c Li-Ion, WinVista Business 32
I'd suspect that the GPU has failed which was a common problem with many of these machines, due to a manufacturing defect within the nVidia chip itself.
New motherboard - or a new laptop altogether - are the way out.
Good luck.
Cheers,
George
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to the problem now
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View Solution.Hi @Ntas
I have read through your post and it seems there are a couple of possibilities, and I noted that you have already tried several of the things I would normally suggest.
I will however post some of those links anyway for you to review, it is always possible there may be something in one of them that may have been missed or may inspire an idea of the cause. Since you mentioned that sometimes just moving the screen will cause the problem or make it disappear, that does seem like either a loose connection or maybe something like pressure on a part of the display causing the issue. Of course that last part may just mean the display is on its last legs, but hopefully not.
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Here are some other sources, that may be helpful to you.
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I hope this all helps.
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