How to fix Black Screen of Death - HP laptop 

I'm the kind of guy who's solution is never on RU-vid Like ever

Thank you so much for posting this! I was ready to give up and take my laptop in to a shop but luckily I found this video and tried it. I had to run mine for longer than an hour but still did the trick!

This just fixed my wife’s old laptop from college! Thank you Mr Fixer Guy!!!

thank you for sharing this video! Left the laptop plugged (without the battery) for 8 hours! No more black screen!!! yey!

dude you saved my entire life. I wish I saw this video when you made it! I thought my computer was garbage. I let it sit for probably 4 years and then decided to try and fix it. Today will go down in history

Thank u soooo much this video help me to fix my laptop especially the last step.. and I make this account just to thank you. You really make a big favor to me Thanks a lot :)

An hour on without battery and my old laptop (G42-475DX) came back to life. Thank you!!

Thank you so much. This saved me several hundred pounds as I did not need to buy a new laptop. Wish I seen this video two months ago. Now we can watch movies on the TV again!

Well, I'm glad that your solution doesn't go directly for most peoples go to, which is heating the graphics chip. I like that you went through each troubleshoot to see what the problem is. I have found 2 of the same laptop in the trash. The first one kept going for about 6 months then had this problem. When I can't figure something out with a laptop, my go to solution is to tear it apart. This one, I found tonight, I am going to leave it as is like you did and see what happens.

#jaynes big up yourself mate thought my lappy was dead tried your last step fixed my hp lappy. thanks and much respect 😎👊

I did all the steps in your video but not worked. At last, i removed all RAM and plug in only 1 RAM into different slot, it worked!!

i did the last part by removing the battery and letting it charge for about an hour, and when i went to power it back on, awesome the laptop screen came back on perfect. saved me a lot of money going to a repair shop. this guy is great. fyi my laptop was the HP Pavilion model and it still worked same technique.

Yes! I fixed my mom's laptop! Thanks

Thanks. Tried all methods except the last one with the internal battery. Will try that method. Thanks.

Hey man, thanks to your video my laptop is working again!!

FANTASTIC After 2 years beleaving 2 of my laptop fale for ever with symptom blinking caps lock. Searching the solution all over, experts and the net. Both work now. Had to charge whole night. Thanks. Will try new bios batterie tomorow

Thanks x1000000000000 times. Laptop of my daughter is now working perfect.

Trying out the last step....hopefully it works. Thanks for the video mate

Same laptop same problem but G32😳😲😲😃😃😃❤️🙏🙏 Thank you sir

Thanks a lot man. I got a 8 year old laptop and the last method fixed my laptop but after a few hours it died again. im charging again the bios battery hope it works the second time. im glad i backup ed my photos

YOU'RE THE BEST! THANKS SO MUCH MAN!!! Where can I send you some 🍻 ? People like you deserve it!

Big thanks to you my dude u saved me tomorrow i have to send an assignment and the work is my pc thank you so much

For people that still couldn't get their PC's to work...try windows key and the letter P Press both at the same time ❗

Thanks the last troubleshoot indeed helped me! Cheers

It appears to be an issue with the battery, whether it's the cmos battery or external battery. If I removed the laptop external battery for about 20 minutes and try to boot it up, I get a black screen. If I have a charged battery and let it sit for 20 minutes, the laptop boots up with the screen working. I didn't boot up this laptop for several months, left it cold. I get a black screen. I charge it for 30 minutes and suddenly the screen works. I'm almost positive this is either a faulty external or CR2032 battery issue. It's likely not the GPU as some HP models have loose GPU connections which require a reflow rework. I would recommend opening up the laptop, replacing the CR2032 battery as well as giving the heat sink and cpu fan a good cleaning.

Thanks a lot. My ram sticks was loose and when I started up my laptop it showed black screen even after installing ram sticks. I tried reinstalling my Rams and wola! It worked. Thank you! 😘

Yes Yes Yes!!!! putting out the RAM and then back into it helped me!

I tore my hp envy dv7 down to give it a good deep cleaning, and thought it would be smart to remove the cmos battery while I was tearing it apart.... now I've got this problem, too. It wasn't out for more than 30 mins, but nothing to restore the bios has helped.... I hope this works

It worked for me too. I had to do a hardware reset. Thanks mate

Thank you it worked for me glad you posted this video Thanks

Thank you tried everything you did, and it was the last thing, the battery needed to be charged

those computer use CR2032 non rechargeable batteries, so the last part don't make sense, the 2032 is not "charged" by the power adapter at all. If it has less than 3.0 volts you should replace it for a brand new (should read 3.2 or 3.3 when tested)

Thank you! I am trying to revive my hp laptop to gain access to two programs that allow me to convert my old vcr home movies to dvd's and have lost the original disc. I can't wait to try this out! I love the bird in the background! (or is it a dog with a 'squeaky toy'?

Thank you you were a God for me

Whats next to do if the first method works?

Thanks BRO... ITS WORKING 😍😍😍

Thanks man.. Learnt a lot

Thanks u so much my computer was broken then so much

I don't have removable batteries and also I don't know how to remove the memory card in my laptop..can you please help how can I let my computer start

Thank you SO much! You are amazing.

Thank you so much, you save my day👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

you have magic...I love you 😍 it worked

The last option worked for me I had to leave it on overnight with the battery in plugged in. When I woke up the next morning I held to power button to turn it Off then turned it back on and boom the screen is back working

It's so helpful.. Thank you ❤❤💙💙

this helped me a lot! thank youuu! 💖

at did you do different on the lasr step? You plugged in battery, let it charge and then tried it and it worked. Dont you think that most people have already had it plugged in for many hours and it wouldnt charge? WHich internal battery, the little coin battery? I tried taking that out and putting it back in. Ive tried all of this stuff. Except reseat ram. I will try that. This computer was working great. I had to nstall Linux because the HP startup disks didnt work. But it worked great with Mint. I just dont know. Ive done all this stuff hundereds of times.

Thank you so much I hold for 20 seconds the power battens and my laptop screen appears 😃 in 20 seconds

Update. It appears that the laptop requires a "charged" battery attached to it to boot. Not the power cord alone but an actual charged battery connected. If the battery is dead and the power cord is connected, no boot. If the power cord is connected but the battery is removed, no boot. I'm wondering if this is actually a specific design intended.

It worked for me Thanks a lot

Perfect bro 👍👌 I resolved my issue

I've read that it's generally caused by an the cheaply soldered integrated graphics chips on motherboards that when heated and cooled enough crack. And by warming it up enough you can often squeeze a small extra amount of life out of it. Generally people place a towel over the air vents and run the machine for 20 minutes to heat it up followed by a reboot, I'm wondering if this worked because in that hour the heat caused the solder to expand and temporarily reseal the joints?

it did work thanks

thank you - I did what you said - on my wife's computer.And after an hour it worked! thank you you again Jaynes.

thank you for helping my laptop recover from the black screen of death, i havent used it for almost a year, thought it was gone. well done.

hi i had blank screen for over 3 weeks then used another laptop watched your video how you removed the battery then pluged it in after an hr YES ,YES THIS WORKED THANK YOU NOW I AM USING MY FIXED BLANK SCREEN LAPTOP TO COMMENT thanks once again have a good day

Hey man, I never comment on youtube, but you've earned it! My Hp Dv7 4190us laptop couldn't post on BIOS. After your "1 hour charging advice" was taken, the thing was brought back to life! You are really a lifesaver, thanks a lot! Regards from Brazil

I cant thank you enought, I have no money to buy a new laptop and this saved my life

why this problem come?? how to choose a 2nd hand laptop so there's will be no problem got i gone 10-11 times to the shop keeper for different different problems

"Booting properly" 9:20 wtf is going on there hahaha

Thanks for taking the time to put this up here. Frankly, I'm always a little impressed by the altruism of folks like you willing to juggle a camera even in the midst of diagnosis of some electronic or mechanical repair. I'm usually too swept up in the task at hand to bother. My trusty older little 14" HP Pavilion g4-1016dx has been up to the same black screen tricks for some time. On advice found elsewhere, I'd been just letting it sit with the black screen and battery in, then rebooting after an hour or three with the power button, having heard this pause in the black could somehow sort of jump-start its elderly little internal CMOS battery weakened with age. And mostly it's worked with some patience. I hadn't heard that the main battery in place somehow diverts power from the internal CMOS one, but I'm giving it a whirl in the black without that external battery in place now. Even if it doesn't pan out, I still appreciate your taking the time to put your advice up here.

I tried to put 1 ram and change the position it worked 👌

Hey man, many thanks; you safe my life. You are the best.

thank you! I did the last method and works! left it charge over night.

OMG YOU HAVE GOT A LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE FROM ME IT TURNS OUT THAT. INSTALLED MY RAM WRONG THANK YOU MAY GOD BKESS YOU ALWAYS!

Duuuuuude, WTF is that squeaking in the background??? Driving me fucking mental.

My laptop immediately came on when I took the battery out and attached the charger. Which is crazy. Thank you!!

Dude I am so happy I found this I was going take my laptop to a computer shop but I saw this video lol you saved me money man

Leaving the battery out for an hour didn't work, bit leaving the battery out for six hours and leaving the laptop on worked great. Thank you for sharing this video with the world, it certainly fixed mine.

Holy crap it worked? I am so glad I found this. Thumbs up.

Thanks for this video. Removing the battery, leaving the power on and charging it for over an hour fixed the frozen black screen on my HP Pavilion dv6.

I'm glad this method worked out for a lot of people. I looked into this issue because my neighbor's HP had the same problem. To clarify, this has nothing to do with the Bios battery not charging, in fact the Bios battery is not a rechargeable battery. This is an issue with the motherboard, a problem that results from poor soldering from the manufacturer. Essentially what you're doing with this method is a "reflow" of the motherboard chips. You can hear the fans going full blast after a few minutes of running it with the battery off, this happens because it is overheating. That overheating has the ability to reflow the soldering on the motherboard. This method won't work for everyone because some may have other motherboard issues. I'm disappointed in HP and unfortunately its not the first time I've been disappointed in HP. I'd stay away from HP products.

i just remove my battery and then charge just as you said when i start my laptop it make click sound (it happens when you press and hold the power button for 20 sec while your computer is running) and then i again press the power button and then the laptop starts. Lol I don't even have to wait for an hour I don't know what on the earth just happen but really dude it worked Thank you Soo much!

I have problem with my HP Probook 440 G3. After i turn off my Windows. In first attempt to turn laptop ON, I always get black screen, keyboard backlit is working, but fan is not spinning. My laptop starts after 4th or 5th attempt normally. Everything works fine until i turn laptop off and try to turn it on. Every Diagnostic tools (also from HP) says that RAM, Processor, Disk, Motherboard, Network Cars is fine. I updated BIOS to the latest version but it is the same. Turning off Fast Boot didn't change anything.

The last step worked thankyou

Starting one hour charge now I pray to god man if it's broken *rope* not really but oml

NO FUQIN WAY! I've been sat here for 3 hours trying everything including removing the memory. I said 'let me check youtube as google results aren't working', left the battery out and now my 12 year old laptop is working again!

Thank you so much, it works perfectly on my hp dv6 laptop.

Thanks alot thanks so much, you saved me, I was using my friend laptop when the black screen appeared. I was almost paying another laptop everyone was furious with me. Thanks alot 🙏🙏🙏

well, we'll see if the 1 hour thing plugged in without the battery works (wasn't RAM, or hard reset, or video). I bought a new CMOS battery too, just in case. I replaced the hard drive about 6 months ago, so I'm praying that it's not that. Stupid thing is the machine was on working fine, I decided to just do a restart to freshen things up, and it just came back with this black screen..grrr. :-/

Thank You!!! My Issue has been solved just by removing the battery & running it on charger. The battery needs to be replaced.

I don't think the problem is the BIOS battery. First of all, it's not a rechargeable battery so you can't give it a charge boost. Second, even if the BIOS battery is dead that's not a reason for the computer not to start. This battery's sole responsibility is to keep the BIOS settings but the boot process would start. Now the real problem - some HP laptops, including G62, overheat like crazy. That makes the metallic parts to expand and when the computer cools off - they shrink. Eventually that will cause the connection between the motherboard and the graphic adapter to fail. So why your method works? By leaving the laptop on for an hour (or like some people pointed out for more than an hour) you overheat the graphic adapter and its metallic parts expand (including the connector's pins). That temporarily recovers the connection between motherboard and the graphic adapter. Actually you need much less than an hour if you prevent the hot air leaving the machine. That'll cause the graphic adapter to overheat much faster. The only valid solution for me is to disable the default graphic adapter. Someone already mentioned it in the comments.

I tried reading through comments to see what the underlying problem is for HP’s to act this way. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Will attempt to leave my laptop on for a few hours. Then try to power it on.

Worked like a miracle. I was about throwing this damn thing away since i hadnt really needed it for a while. Now should i just leave the battery out? lolzzzz. Thanks buddy.

Ive tried everything on the internet and didnt work im gonna try the last step of urs leaving it for several hours to charge the bios hopefully it will work

Does the power on the laptop have to be on? I tried with power supply plugged in, no power on laptop. Did not work. Now trying with the laptop power on. See you in and hour. Yes, battery is removed.

This actually flipping worked! Thank you for the info. I was about ready to replace my CPU

I have done everything. But the last trick of 1 hour is something that doesn't work. If I take out of the battery and leave the laptop an hour long ON (of course within the charge cable) my laptop will turn off automatically in less than a minute....????

The last solution worked perfectly for me! Thank you so much

My HP pavilion has the fans running. I followed all the directions of HP and nothing works. My light up keyboard won’t light up either. It’s all black screen

Ive tried everything but the last one, I have to try that one when I get my next black screen.

Thank you very much for this explanation. I have tried it but my laptop isn't coming up.. I can't afford an engineer right now 😢

I just opened the laptop and cleaned the dust and I closed it back and then this black screen appeared i will try it if it works then I will reply again

Awesome, the last step worked! Kinda funny that this video helped way more than the official HP support videos I watched...

I did steps but not working

Removing the memory slot and fixing it again worked for me...thankyou so much!!

I had to teardown my laptop to unplug the cmos battery and plug it back.. that resolved the issue. But it was cumbersome..

NOW IF THIS WORKS, I am def impressed, Ill be back with an update.........

thank you very much! my problem solved, i was so worried about my laptop. now it's fixed.

2020 people THE HARD RESET PLUG THE PC TO CHARGER HOLD THE POWER FOR 10 TO 30 SECONDS THEN PRESS POWER BUTTON

Well In last step,it was without battery charging.But did you charge the laptop while it was on?Let me know please.I'm applying the last trick :(