Hey guys,
My laptop, Dell Inspiron N5010 encountered a malfunction.Yesterday,the pop up notification said AMD driver is not responding, then out of sudden, the laptop hang like forever. Then, I restart it and the screen is black at all with the 8 beeps code. I knew the 8 beep code means something is wrong with the LCD display.
Today, when i turn it on again, the black screen and the 8 beep code are still there. When i connect it to an external monitor, the external monitor managed to project the visual but my laptop screen is still black.initially,there is a Startup Repair,which take quite sometime but at last windows said can't find solution. Then it restarts and a blue screen coming out with following details.
"A problem has dedected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer. Attempt to reset the display driver and recover from timeout failed."
I think the main problem is the display driver but not the LCD. Hence, I got into safe mood, uninstall and reinstall the ATI driver.After i restart my laptop, the external monitor showed it operates back like normal, normal as in full interface, but not safe mode anymore (but my laptop screen is still black). Then i thought problem is solved. When i restart the laptop with no connection to external monitor, the same thing reappears again with complete black screen and 8 beep sound. I tried to update Bios but it failed due to driver.The blue screen appears again "A problem has dedected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer. Attempt to reset the display driver and recover from timeout failed."
Please enlighten me so that I know what to do with my laptop. I need it so desperately to deal with assignments and so on.