Hi, I slammed the lid shut and the screen lights in the lower right corner for a 2 seconds and then it all goes black on my tosiba m 115 laptop. Should I replace the screen and/or the inverter?

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Hi,
Right click the battery icon located in the system tray (lower right corner of your screen) and click to select 'Power Options'. Once the power options window pops up, click to select 'Choose what closing the lid does' link on the left pane. Then you can choose the power settings that you may prefer. ^__^

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When you say "screen goes black," does the computer power down, or is it still operating? Does the sleep light come on? Does it respond to the keyboard and mouse? (Example: press the power button momentarily, wait a few seconds for the "Do you really want to shut down" message to appear, even though you can't see it, then hit the return key to answer "OK," and see if it shuts down.) Does the screen go black or come out of black if you tap the computer?
While your computer is working, go to System Preferences / Desktop & Screen Saver, the Screen Saver tab, click Hot Corners, and set a corner of your screen to Put Display to Sleep. Then next time your screen goes black, mouse your way into that corner, pause a few seconds, then mouse back out and see if your screen returns.

Hello,

The picture board on your monitor is faulty or bad, since it goes black after few seconds, it means the picture board of your laptop has developed fault.

The best thing for you to do now is to take the laptop to a local repairer within your vicinity to help with the replacement of the picture board because the fault is not something you can fix yourself. in order not to complicate issues.

Take care.

you most likely damaged the LCD or dislodged the cables from system board to the LCD. Also check for a small button or "nub" near the base of the screen, is it stuck or broken? this turns off the screen when lid is closed, slamming may have got it stuck.

if you have an external monitor. shut off the laptop, connect the video cable from external monitor and turn on laptop...do you get video?

if yes, your LCD is damaged and needs service. if no, you have done far more damage and need to have the whole thing diagnosed at a service center.

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hi my lcd AL1916 acer monitor keeps going black or loosing signal after 2 or 3 sec. i press the moon on my keyboard 2 times it comes on then off again please help

I'm not sure why you slammed the system shut, bu if it was to do with a system performance issue, the most likely answer is that the hard disk drive is or has failed.

If running Windows XP, boot to recovery console, see if you can run chkdsk on the drive. If Vista, boot to the DVD and run repair my computer.

Most likely, if those options do not get the system to boot, a hard drive replacement may be in the cards.

it turns on for a second while raising the lid and then goes right back out leading me to believe its the lid switch or senser. But i am unable to locate it. My machine is a toshiba satellite A135-S2276. Please help!