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I have a dell inspiron 15 7000 series 4k . When i power up or wake from sleep the screen is on but black. Screen works fine.

Tmansmooth

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I need to get this fixed. Laptop screen is on but black. Not a hardware problem with screen because somtimes it works. Works with external monitor somtimes also. I checked ram and also checked static.
 
Remove your battery and charger
Hold the power button down for 15 seconds
Put the battery and charger back in
Check if it boots up properly
 
Most sleep and hibernation problems can be fixed by doing the following:-

Open a command prompt as administrator.
At the command prompt, type powercfg.exe /hibernate off, and then press Enter.

Restart your system.
Now go back to command prompt (as admin).
At the command prompt, type powercfg.exe /hibernate on, and then press Enter. (that is a space between exe and /)

This should resolve the problem whereby a computer will not resume from sleep or hibernation.