Laptop Screen Blank

[rainy]

Hi

I have a HP Pavillion dv2000
Windows XP

Yesterday when turning it on screen was blank, could hear it loading though?
Left it til this morning, took out battery left mains in and it turned on fine.
I shutdown and turned it back on about hour or two later, back to same problem screen blank.
If I turn on with screen halfway it gives 2 short beeps, if I open fully I get the one long two short.
These beeps happened yesterday too but I hadn't time to search for solutions online.
Is there hope for this as it worked this morning?

Thanks for any help or ideas

[street1 (RIP)]

Try taking out and reinstalling the memory /ram. It does become loose
because laptops are portable and moved around a lot.

[rainy]

oh yeah thanks I'll try that
you don't know of any guide that would show me how to do that?

[manadude2]

The bottom of your laptop should look like this:


Just unscrew the memory compartment (should look like this:
 )
remove, then insert the memory then screw the panel back on.

With thanks to www.insidemylaptop.com

[rainy]

thanks!
yeah I did that the ram was actually loose :/
but still same problem when I try to turn back on

[manadude2]

Is there a button that will allow you to switch between Screen, Screen/Projector, Projector?

On my EI Systems laptop, I must press Fn+F4 to switch between these modes.

For some reason also at logon, when I start typing the screen goes blank and I must then press the above key combination before the screen will display anything. Maybe this is what has happened?

[rainy]

hey
thanks I tried that just to check
but still blank and the one long beep and two short
I can't remember what I did diff this morning to get it working :/

[manadude2]

I Googled your problem and found this forum:

http://forums.hardwarelogic.com/f36/hp-dv2000-laptop-woes-blank-screen-11008.html

where this guy seems to have the same problem as you.

By the sounds of it, you may have a major graphics problem.