When turning on laptop, sometimes it displays info sometimes does not

Hi

I have a laptop here which is HP G62.

It's been functioning fine. Just from a few days ago, when powered on, it would not display anything on the screen.

So i held the power button to shut it down then did the same to power it on.

Sometimes it would turn on and function fine and sometimes it would not display anything at all on the screen.

The sound is fine when you power it on because it sounds like it is functioning so i have no doubts about that. Just the problem is you don't know when it will display anything on the screen when you power it on.

Im running it now after i tried to get it up and running and im now posting this issue and it's working fine.

Any ideas why it is doing this?

The battery is new, but i was thinking maybe i should clean the hard drive out after backing any important data and maybe formatting the drive then see how it goes. But maybe this is not needed.

Im not too sure yet.

It ain't a overheating problem.

It is just a random problem. Sometimes it does not show anything on screen when turned on and sometimes it works fine.

I believe everything works but it is strange to why this happens.

When turning the laptop on... If nothing is displayed then all you see is black screen whilst at the same time you can hear the laptop running.

So then you have to turn it off by holding power button and trying your luck again by turning it on to see if it will work.

I had to try this cycle about 3 or 4 times and finally it showed up and was fine. Now someone else is using the laptop and its still working fine now.

It displays everything when it works fine... You can go into bios by pressing whichever button whenever needed when its on.

torchwood said:

couple of thoughts
Are you overclocking,
I dont see an antivirus
What toolbars have you got on FF
Your reinstall earlier in the year i guess W7, where did you get the download, torrent site did you check the hash code.

Roy

It is not the laptop that I wrote about in my system specs. It is another laptop.

It says brought long time ago with Windows 7 officially on it. Never had any problems like this before.

Also there is no overclocking going on on this laptop because it's not really made for gaming etc.

It is just used for general web browsing etc so it is not overclocked.

There is no anti virus on there and never had any issues without this.

Im not too sure what you mean by what toolbars has it got on FF.

Thanks to all the replies by the way.

It's never overheated from what i have seen although it's possible, but i don't think it ever has.

No i have not tried to plug it to an external monitor when nothing came up on the laptops screen.