Monitor shuts off booting finished

[Devin]

My girlfriend is running a Toshiba Laptop. The screen keeps shutting off, sometimes it loads windows, and sometimes it shuts off during the boot menu. Starting in safe mode and BIOS doesn't make a difference, the monitor still shuts off, but the computer keeps running.

I think there may be a weird setting that is shutting the screen off after a minute, but because it shuts down, I can't get in to the control panel to change it. On the other hand, even when I don't boot windows it still shuts down, so who knows.

Any ideas how to fix this and if it may be something as simple as a monitor power setting?

[GX1_Man]

What happened prior to this, how old, what model, and if it is still under warranty would be important information to have.

[Devin]

It isn't very old, was bought in August of 2005. It is still under warranty... a 3 year warranty was bought with it. Not exactly sure of the make?

[Raptor]

Have the people you bought it from take a look at it, unless you turned on some power saving option in the BIOS this shouldn't happen.

Did you mess around with the function and F1-through f12 keys?