[access-uk] Re: Blue screen

  • From: "ANDY COLLINS" <Andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 12:54:31 +0100

Hi John -

Thanks for taking the time to go so thoroughly in to this.

I've no sight, that's why I was unaware of this until it was seen yesterday.

And, I've no idea what the function key plus, combination might be to reset the 
screen, if this is the problem.

The screen is all blue, with blue vertical lines, that's all I know -

Andy 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: John Gregory 
  To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 11:44 AM
  Subject: [access-uk] Re: Blue screen


  Hi Andy,

  Difficult to resolve such issues without actually having the machine to hand. 
However, it would appear to be a screen display issue rather than anything else.

  Does your laptop have scree adjustment controls on the side or edge of the 
screen? If so, it may be as simple as these having been disturbed accidentally, 
i.e. contrast being turned up too high etc.

  Another possibility is that the laptop has function key operations which 
switch it to another mode or screen display, i.e. pressing and holding down the 
'FN' key and pressing another key. These are toddle keys, so pressing the same 
combination would reverse the function.

  Don't know whether you can read the labels on the keyboard, these are quite 
small and located either at the top edge of the key or bottom and are normally 
colour coded to indicate whether it is a 'shift' function or an 'FN' function. 
Your laptop user manual will have information on this. I do know that there is 
an 'FN' mode function that turns the screen off, and it may be this that has 
happened. It is easily done as the 'FN' key is located quite close to the 'ALT' 
key.

  Sorry not to be more helpful, but try investigating the above to see if an 
accidental key combination has been pressed to make the screen as it is.

  Cheers.

  John.



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  From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
ANDY COLLINS
  Sent: 29 October 2011 09:58
  To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: [access-uk] Re: Blue screen


  Hi John -

  I can't say when the screen was last ok, I only discovered yesterday that it 
wasn't.

  I'm using an HP laptop -

  Andy
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: John Gregory 
    To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 11:13 PM
    Subject: [access-uk] Re: Blue screen


    Andy,

    1. When did the screen last work OK;

    2. What have you done since the last time you knew the screen was OK, i.e. 
installed a new programme, changed configuration settings etc etc;

    3. Are you using a laptop or a PC with monitor.

    John.



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    From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
ANDY COLLINS
    Sent: 28 October 2011 14:59
    To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
    Subject: [access-uk] Blue screen


    Hi all -

    I seem to have a perminant light blue screen, be it in an app or online. If 
I write a document in Word, insert5 reports black on white, but what is on the 
screen isn't visible to eye sight.

    Any thoughts?

    Thanks -

    Andy

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