If you see the Power Button Lockout message on your HP Monitor, press and hold the power button for about 10 seconds to restore its functionality.

In this type of issue, whenever a user presses the power button to turn on his laptop, the Caps lock indicator starts blinking continuously and the display remains black.

Reader Shawn wrote in with this power pickle: I have a Dell Studio Laptop. When I turn off my computer, the power-button light stays on and blinks. The only way I can stop it from blinking is to ...