My Bosses Laptop isn't working!

idiotproof · 06-09-2006 9:27am #1

My boss is coming in late today so I come in and get to work and turn on his machine to get the orders, at first it looks like it comes on, leds flash and I can hear it, but nothing on the screen so I restart it and turn it back on a few times, then I realise that it is on and so is the screen but it's really really dark, I can just about see the desktop and the icons but only barely and with my nose to the screen.

I shut the machine down last night and it was working fine, no problems. It's a Hewlett Packard Compaq nx6110. Any advice or clues to whats going on would be awesome.

Cheers

subway · 06-09-2006 9:38am

backlight could be gone.
is it plugged in or on battery?

try holding the "fn" key and pressing + at the same time to turn the backlight on.

if that doesnt work check in the bios for power saving options.

best plan would be "i dindt touch it, i swear" tho

idiotproof · 06-09-2006 9:42am

It just randomly started working after about the 10th restart, bit odd. Wasn't the brightness, power saving or the lid close buttons. Scared the crap out of me. Any idea what it was?

subway · 06-09-2006 10:23am

could be a loose connection in the hinge.
if its under warranty try and get it repaired.

if not, theres not much you can do.

idiotproof · 06-09-2006 12:09pm

cool, i'll sniff that out today, only problem is we can't really work with it away for a week(s) so gues we'll just have to keep an eye on it. Thanks for the quick replies.

subway · 06-09-2006 1:18pm

not to be too blunt,
but you really should have some sort of backup in palce if you cant work without it.
what happens if the laptop dies? does the company shut down?

you can pick up a cheap desktop for a few hundred euro which will mean your company wont be without a machine when the laptop almost ineveitably breaks.

My Bosses Laptop isn't working!

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