Blank screen

[carliez1819]

I have a Compaq laptop, V3700 which i bought just last year, OS is Windows Vista,  I dont have a knowledge about computer troubleshooting so pls bear with me.   I use this just for surfing the internet, media files store keeping.  My question is, before, whenever i close the lid of mylaptop, it goes into sleep, no matter how many hours it is close, and when i open the lid it asks me for my password.  But now, i close the lid, it goes into sleep still, but when i open it, the screen is just blank, no activity on the screen. So i press the power button for 2 or 5 seconds to turn it off.  Then hit the power button again, then it gives me a windows error recovery message saying i didnt shut down my computer.  I always choose the "Windows start normally"  since i am not sure what other options mean, like the safemode etc.  I have already tried changing the power settiings thinking it could be the cause but it still gives me a blanck screen after opening the lid. What should i do to fix it?  Any help is greatly appreciated.  Thanks. 

[sdoublait]

Did you ever figure this out?  I am having exactly the same problem and now I always have a blank screen.  Thanks.

[naysie]

I'm having the same problem but my laptop is 2 years old

Did anyone figure out how to fix this?

[jasmith100]

I have just started having this problem as well.  However with my laptop the screen goes blank if I move it or the laptop.  I am computer literate as I am a former dealer support tech going back to the luggable that looked like suit cases.  My laptop is 2 years old and last year I upgraded it to Windows 7.  I use this for Internet wirelessly at home for personal reasons but I do take it out to support for a few special long time clients to bring patches, etc. to support their networks and systems.  Any hints would be helpful.