Toshiba Laptop Has Gone Blank

its as if the screen has died nothing is seen and i dont feel much if any air blowing through vent

does it just need cleaning?
i took out battery and tried to run it with no battery

 

Try hooking an external monitor up, if it is working then most likely there is a hot key that has been pushed. Look for a key in the f1 - f12 keys with a pic of a little screen on it. Push the fn key along with it and see if switches back to your laptop screen. Also look for a key to brighten the screen,(sometimes looks like a little sun), and push it to see if it somehow was set to all dark. You can also look in the bios settings for monitor settings and see if somehow it has been changed to use a separate monitor.

 

saw that -it could be bios battery

 

same diagnosis

 

You can rule out the BIOS battery as the cause of a completely black screen. If the BIOS battery needed replacing you'd see a message on the screen like press F1 to enter setup or press F2 to continue. The screen would not be completely black.

 

so... sometimes they go totally useless?

 

Hi I have a Toshiba Satelite L50-1p1 and I have the same issue a blank screen on bootup I took the battery out disconnected the power and held down the power button for 30 secs reconnected the power switched on reconnected the battery and after nearly 24 hiurs it fired up but it went to the Bios page and I had to set the date and time all worked well I ran a memory test and a disc check up I updated drivers and then restarted BLACK screendid not start again in 36 hours went through step 1 again and booted after 24 hours PLease help as I am going nuts especially now with lock down Thanks

 

thats your only computer? so it worke once but now its back to black?

 

i dont know how to fix it and i fear its unfixable

 

did u try the tech guy site or leo la port?

 

Hi when it powers up it takes upto 24 hrs to boot then it works fine I have tried without the battery, with an external monitor and it is still the same it takes 24hrd to boot
When I start i connect the mains power press the power button on the laptop the led on the fron is white I then connect the battery both leds are orange/red and i have to wait for it to boot

 

Hi John who is the tech guy and leo la port?? thanks for the replies

 

Tech guy site: https://forums.techguy.org/
Leo Laporte: https://techguylabs.com/

 

Thanks for the info

 

My toshiba won,t boot it is running win 10 I have a win Ultimate disc that I purchased could I load this some how because I can not open the disc drive as it has not booted

 

There's a chance you have a very small hole on the face of your drive. Here a straightened end of a paper clip or a very small jewellers' screwdriver can be inserted to manually open the door. Do this with power off and watch the door. It will barely pop loose and you'll need to pull it gently out rest of the way.

 

Thanks