https://community.sony.se/t5/pcs-accessories/black-screen-on-startup-please-help/m-p/1786723#M134584 <P>Happens to me time to time, too. Somehow it seems to related with updates but not always.</P><P>The trick helping me is to keep the power button pressed until (like 10 secs)&nbsp;machine shuts down.Then powering it up again.This works most of the time. Sometimes it can take something like 10 minutes to come back life again.</P> Wed, 08 Oct 2014 19:53:13 GMT Jsvaio 2014-10-08T19:53:13Z https://community.sony.se/t5/pcs-accessories/black-screen-on-startup-please-help/m-p/1782949#M134567 <P>I have a sony vaio svf1521p2eb that i bought new 10 months ago. when i restarted it yesterday due to an update for itunes it would not turn back on. the LED's come on and the fan is on but the screen stays off. I have tried connecting to an external monitor via hdmi and still nothing. Can anyone help with this please?</P> Sat, 04 Oct 2014 13:30:55 GMT https://community.sony.se/t5/pcs-accessories/black-screen-on-startup-please-help/m-p/1782949#M134567 willirvine 2014-10-04T13:30:55Z https://community.sony.se/t5/pcs-accessories/black-screen-on-startup-please-help/m-p/1786723#M134584 <P>Happens to me time to time, too. Somehow it seems to related with updates but not always.</P><P>The trick helping me is to keep the power button pressed until (like 10 secs)&nbsp;machine shuts down.Then powering it up again.This works most of the time. Sometimes it can take something like 10 minutes to come back life again.</P> Wed, 08 Oct 2014 19:53:13 GMT https://community.sony.se/t5/pcs-accessories/black-screen-on-startup-please-help/m-p/1786723#M134584 Jsvaio 2014-10-08T19:53:13Z