Dell Venue 8 Pro - black screen after powering on or getting it out of sleep

Anonymous
2013-11-26T12:36:54+00:00

I have a Dell Venue 8 Pro tablet. The screen of the 8 pro often doesnt turn on after pressing the power button (to get it out of sleep) or after pressing the windows button. Only the backlight turns on. 

Sometimes, after pressing the power button numerous times the screen turns on. (numerous = >50times)

Doenst matter if the battery is 100% or 10%.

The screen also doesnt turn on booting it up (after powering down).

Also when i press the power button + volume down immediately after (to enter the bios), it shows a black screen with backlight on.

I have made a video of it (the first 20 seconds the 8 pro is booting up, see the white led flashing):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lgm52QJyA8

I have installed teamviewer on the 8 pro and i have logged on with my laptop 3 times while having a black screen on the 8 pro.

The strange thing is, when viewing the 8 pro's screen with teamviewer, i can see the touch screen of the 8 pro is still functioning. See this video i made:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1GBI6d9jC4

Each time i watched the system event log, and saw warnings like:

'a pointer device did not report a valid unit of angular measurement'

'a pointer device reported a bad angular physical range'

'a pointer device reported a bad angular logical range'

2 pics of the system event log:

http://i39.tinypic.com/othmao.jpg

http://i39.tinypic.com/t9gsom.jpg

I have installed all the laters Dell drivers and flashed the Bios (also from Dell). Also i installed the latest windows 8.1 updates.

I have rolled back the installed Intel graphic drivers to standard microsoft drivers, but also with the standard drivers the screen occasionally wont turn on.

This device is rather new. What can i do to fix this?

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-12-08T16:22:29+00:00

    My mother-in-law and I each have the Dell Venue 8 Pro.  We have both been experiencing what sounds like the same problem (or a similar one).

    When using the preinstalled My Dell program (Checkup-->Bluescreen Troubleshooter), I have found an error on both machines referring to the pdc.sys file under %SYSTEMROOT%\System32\Drivers crashing with all -100 code. 

    I've been hoping this is a driver/firmware problem which would be fixed, but it's been happening for weeks now.  I reset her system, and the problem reemerged within a couple of days.  Mine is now doing it every time it sleeps. 

    I haven't had time to contact Dell's support yet, but I came across this post, and I thought I would share this possible cause information. (I figure since we are both having it, many more DV8P owners probably are, too)

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-12-06T17:58:21+00:00

    I have installed teamviewer in my 8 pro, when logging into the teamviewer account with my iPad (or Dell laptop or work computer), i can access the 8 pro. Also the touch of the 8 pro is working normally, just the screen is blank.

    That could still be consistent with the hypothesis.  Originally on W7 I had my Tablet as my secondary screen and in some cases would be able to use Touch on it to control parts of the primary (non-touch) display.   Once I switched my Tablet to being my primary screen that quirk stopped happening.  

    So, if the "primary" display is on the phantom and being seen by the RD it could be affected by the only screen which is Touch sensitive.  And it could also explain why you get some discrepancies reported in the Event log.   <eg>

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-12-06T17:46:25+00:00

               

    Your phantom monitor approach sounded quite reasonable to me.

    And your mouse pointer could move over the blank screen?   If so, take note of which side it comes out of because that would be where the phantom monitor would be.

    Unfortunately it has nothing to do with a phantom monitor.

    I have installed teamviewer in my 8 pro, when logging into the teamviewer account with my iPad (or Dell laptop or work computer), i can access the 8 pro. Also the touch of the 8 pro is working normally, just the screen is blank.

    I have posted a youtube to show that in the openingspost, but here again the link:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1GBI6d9jC4

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-12-06T16:45:50+00:00

               

    Your phantom monitor approach sounded quite reasonable to me.

    And your mouse pointer could move over the blank screen?   If so, take note of which side it comes out of because that would be where the phantom monitor would be.

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  5. Anonymous
    2013-12-06T13:59:22+00:00

    Hi!

    Your phantom monitor approach sounded quite reasonable to me.

    So I just tried with the USB keyboard. Nothing happened. Did it often and variable scenarios like assuming lockscreen is on.

    Nothing.

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