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[Closed] dell laptop help

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cannot work this out
if i put the laptop into sleep mode then wake it up the screen goes blank then on the righthand side of keyboard a monitor button lights up, nothing i do will bring the monitor back to life unless i hold the power button down and turn the thing off then restart
any help to get over or around this
ta..


 
Posted : 25/03/2012 6:59 pm
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On my Dell the power button slowly flashes. I just press this once and wait a few seconds to come to life.


 
Posted : 25/03/2012 7:12 pm
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Don't do it?

Joking aside, I've had so many problems with Resume on laptops over the years that I generally just fully shut down.

When you say 'sleep' do you mean sleep or hibernate? If the latter, could be a corrupt hibernation file maybe?


 
Posted : 25/03/2012 7:37 pm
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Is it a new laptop that has always been doing this, or was it ok before and it's just started this annoying behaviour?


 
Posted : 25/03/2012 9:21 pm
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Have you made any updates recently that you can system restore to before? Have you turned systems restore on....


 
Posted : 25/03/2012 9:51 pm

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