Laptop display problems

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"Reed Amerland" <raidmax@excite.com> wrote in message
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| Hiya,
|
| I just recently picked up a Hewlett Packard Omnibook XE3 for free.
| It looks very nice. Unfortunately the display only stays on for anywhere
| from 10 to 30 seconds. Even if immediately going into bios setup. If I
| use an external monitor it does the same thing. When the LCD display
| shuts down the external monitor goes off too. Any ideas anyone?
|
|

Just speculation of course, but if it is doing it even if entering bios, it
is likely a GPU issue.

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Reed Amerland wrote:
> Jason Cothran wrote:
>> "Reed Amerland" <raidmax@excite.com> wrote in message
>> newsy7Bc.3873$HN5.461@lakeread06...
>>> Hiya,
>>>
>>> I just recently picked up a Hewlett Packard Omnibook XE3 for
>>> free. It looks very nice. Unfortunately the display only stays on
>>> for anywhere from 10 to 30 seconds. Even if immediately going into
>>> bios setup. If I use an external monitor it does the same thing.
>>> When the LCD display shuts down the external monitor goes off too.
>>> Any ideas anyone?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Just speculation of course, but if it is doing it even if entering
>> bios, it is likely a GPU issue.
>>
>>
>
>
> Yeah,
>
> Thats what I am afraid of. Damn thing looks like it just came out
> of the box. Such a shame.

Hmm. Check if warrantee is available for it. In the Boston area, there's
also a fabulous little laptop repair store on Mass. Ave near Porter Square,
that does very inexpensive, good quality repairs and has enough of a parts
bin to fix a lot of the weird problems.

The 10-30 seconds business sounds like a thermal problem. Does just the
display go out, or does the machine power off? And have you tried it with
the external power supply on and the battery removed?