I was using my laptop - HP G61-320CA no problem all day like I usually do, and I went to go eat dinner. So I closed the lid of the laptop and went to eat, when I came back to the laptop, opened it up and the screen was just all black. My first assumption was that it was just stuck in sleep mode because it ususally does do that. So I turned the power off and tried to boot up. The screen was still blank but the fan as running and the start up light & wifi button was lit up. Also the caps lock and numb lock was blinking once. I did some research and apparently one blink means CPU problems. My battery needs to be replaced and I kept getting a message saying to change it. Does anyone know if it's just the fact I need a new battery that's making the display not show up?
Any info is helpful.
Also... I have done the whole, take battery out, unplug the laptop and hold power for 60s and try to start up - same problem happened when I tried this mulitple times. I've also tried to hook it up to an external monitor and no picture comes up on that external monitor.