Hi all, I recently updated the driver for the Ati card in my laptop, during the installation the screen had gone blank and has stayed that way ever since. But first, heres a back story...
I started having trouble with the laptop a few months ago when I assume the ati card had overheated and caused the screen to flicker, this laptop comes with an Intel card also which you can switch to by pressing the power save button near the keyboard. The intel card ran just fine, and if I output the video through hdmi, the ati card would work fine also, which led me to believe that there maybe an issue with the screen. Also, if I kept pressing the power save button and switching between cards, the ati card would eventually begin to work normally on the laptops screen.
I wanted to update my drivers today as they were a couple of years old, I had trouble installing them in the past as there was a conflict between both gpu cards, so I became frustrated and left it. I used Ati's auto detect tool and it began to install the new drivers when the screen went blank. I thought this was normal during a driver update, but I left the laptop running and it stayed that way for over an hour. So I turned the laptop off using the main power button (Probably wasnt a good idea I imagine). Now the screen just stays blank, even if I try to switch to the intel card.
Any help on this issue will be much appreciated.
I started having trouble with the laptop a few months ago when I assume the ati card had overheated and caused the screen to flicker, this laptop comes with an Intel card also which you can switch to by pressing the power save button near the keyboard. The intel card ran just fine, and if I output the video through hdmi, the ati card would work fine also, which led me to believe that there maybe an issue with the screen. Also, if I kept pressing the power save button and switching between cards, the ati card would eventually begin to work normally on the laptops screen.
I wanted to update my drivers today as they were a couple of years old, I had trouble installing them in the past as there was a conflict between both gpu cards, so I became frustrated and left it. I used Ati's auto detect tool and it began to install the new drivers when the screen went blank. I thought this was normal during a driver update, but I left the laptop running and it stayed that way for over an hour. So I turned the laptop off using the main power button (Probably wasnt a good idea I imagine). Now the screen just stays blank, even if I try to switch to the intel card.
Any help on this issue will be much appreciated.