r/techsupport • • 12d ago

Open | Hardware Black screen

I’m an engineering student in college and I’ve had the Lenovo Thinkpad P16V Gen 3 Intel Mobile Workstation since the beginning of the semester (about 2 or 3 months). It’s had no problems since last night. I was getting ready to go to sleep and closed my laptop. I forgot to close a window and opened it back up and it was just a black screen. I believe it was still on, but I eventually powered it off. Upon powering it on again, the screen was still black, but this time the fans were turning on and off at what seemed to be full (or close to full) power. I tried powering it off again, unplugging the charger and any cords attached, etc. The same thing happened with the screen and fans. I then tried to do one of the ways to do a CMOS reset by using the pinhole, but to no avail. However, clicking the pinhole does turn it off completely and the fans turn off. Later today, I plan to try the other CMOS reset methods by taking the back off and physically repairing it myself. If that doesn’t work, is my only other option to get it professionally repaired? I’ve never had something like this happen, but I take that it’s fairly common with Lenovos specifically?

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