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1239021 2011-10-21 09:56:00 Sometimes when I put my laptop into sleep, when I resume the laptops' screen doesn't show anything (no image, backlight etc). When I plug my laptop into an external monitor and set it to extend screens it displays an image on the external (all other options do nothing), and I can set the extrenal to primary monitor, etc. However this time the laptops' screen is listed as "Generic non PnP monitor" rather than "IBM ThinkPad" or whatever. When I change it from extended to only show on 2 (external), the external goes blank, and when I press escape (to undo the changes) the graphics card driver crashes, with Windows saying that it has stopped responding and has recovered:

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AFAIK there are no new drivers. At that point I usually have to reboot the whole laptop which is a pain in the ass. What could be the cause of this?
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1239022 2011-10-21 23:27:00 Disable sleep. pctek (84)
1239023 2011-10-22 03:51:00 When you say there are no new drivers, do you mean nvidia/ATI(AMD) video drivers? or do you mean the chipset drivers? Try downloading the latest drivers for both, and do a CLEAN install. jareemon (5207)
1239024 2011-10-23 01:48:00 Change to drivers from IBM if you are using generic ones from ATI, or vice versa.

May also want to check for BIOS updates.
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