Recent content by kharrisma

Hey, webworkings, Thanks for the (quick!) reply. Omitted that I did indeed hook up to an external monitor... it stayed dark too. Verified monitor good by connecting to wife's Dell, and it works just fine. Edited my original post to include this fact and result.

The Perpetrator: 2010 Asus G73JH-A1, 8 gb ram, 2 500 gb drives, blu-ray/dvd/CD optical drive, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870, 17" display, Win7 64-bit. The Problem As it Stands: 1. Battery in, no A/C, laptop is off: push power button, num & caps lock come on briefly, 3 "junk buttons" @ upper...