{"id":6,"date":"2008-08-29T18:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T23:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/blog\/2008\/08\/29\/computers-hardware-laptop-screen-going-blank\/"},"modified":"2018-11-06T02:18:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T07:18:48","slug":"laptop-screen-going-blank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/2008\/08\/29\/laptop-screen-going-blank\/","title":{"rendered":"Laptop Screen Going Blank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was helping another person in the Windows newsgroup who was complaining that their laptop\u2019s screen goes blank after 30-60 minutes and they have to open and close the lid and press the power button to get it back. My advice:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It could be caused by overheating, dust, or maybe a loose connection. Try holding the laptop up, with the display\u2019s screen facing the ground. Gently shake it a bit and see if the screen goes blank. If it does, then that\u2019s your problem; it\u2019s not a laptop, it\u2019s an Etch-a-Sketch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"tagcloud\"><a href=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/tag\/computers\/\" rel=\"tag\">Computers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/tag\/hardware\/\" rel=\"tag\">Hardware<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was helping another person in the Windows newsgroup who was complaining that their laptop\u2019s screen goes blank after 30-60 minutes and they have to open and close the lid and press the power button to get it back. My advice: It could be caused by overheating, dust, or maybe a loose connection. Try holding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,15],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-computers","tag-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}