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I’ve had my white NC10 for about 2 weeks now and I’m delighted with it. But yesterday I experienced the whole screen going completely white (well, light grey) and the machine locked up. I had to put it into standby and wake it up again to clear the fault. Do you reckon that’s hardware or software related? It’s only happened the once, while I was on Facebook. I’m running a pretty standard machine – haven’t messed with the memory or changed the operating system.
Zum
A chap posted a comment on the front page with a similar “glitch”. I’ve not seen anything like that myself Im afraid. It is prob just worth checking your power management settings – had the machine been ideal for 5mins or so or did it happen in use?
Further to that – other readers might notice their machine turns off. I’ve just woken mine up and it appeared “off”. This is just “hibernation”. Turn the power back on and windows should “resume”. You will end up exactly where the PC was before it powered down.
That doesn’t sound like what you saw though!
Hibernation settings are in the (right click on desktop and click on properties) page (Display Properties).
Then Screen Saver tab
Then power Button
You’ll see all the things you can change with things such as closing the lid under the advanced tab etc.Back to the problem however – perhaps it was facebook lol. It does sound like a software rather than a hardware thing to me. If you’ve installed any applications it’d be helpful to know which ones as some might be controlling the display perhaps.
I’m well acquainted with Hibernation – it certainly wasn’t that – it was an instantaneous change from a normal browser display to the whole screen going light grey. I can’t think of any apps I’ve installed that would mess with screen settings. I’m hoping it was a Facebook glitch – there are plenty of those!
Bugger! It happened again last night. This time the whole screen went dark grey (rather than light grey like last time) – not off completely like in standby but still with some backlight. Again the only solution was to Fn+Esc into standby and then power up again. At the time I had two instances of IE7 and one instance of Firefox 3 open. Facebook was open but the active window was another webpage (HotorNot – ok, I’m shallow!!). I just moved the cursor with the trackpad and suddenly all was grey.
I have installed:
Eset Nod 32 (in place of MacAffee)
IE7
Firefox 3.03
Serif Photo Plus 6
Open Office 3
IrfanView
Newsleecher
Acronis True Image 10
Yahoo Messenger 9
Pegasus Mail
Windows Media Player 11
Adobe Reader 8
Spywareblaster
3 Connect (for dongle, not in use at time)
CCleaner
FLV PlayerAny ideas?
Zum
Sorry chap not much more to offer. But I thought it was funny that you admitted to being on hotornot!
I got mine yesterday and the same thing happened to me. Suddenly, dark grey bright screen and I had to switch the nc10 off and on.
I’ll let you know if it keeps happening and how I solve it if I do.
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