T i m wrote:
Hi All,

I have just been given a Dell Inspiron laptop that has a faulty
display.

When turned on you see the Dell BIOS at half brightness and mainly on
but flashing off and then you see the XP splash screen that then
flashes off more often about till the desktop loads (when the screen
randomly goes bright / dark (as sometimes actually looks ok for a few
secs).

After a couple of mins the screen goes completely dark but images can
still be made out with a bright light.

On the odd moments when screen goes 'normal' it looks like it is lit
from both sides but where one side is brighter than the other (if that
makes sense)?

So, from the above could anyone guess if it's *likely* to be the
inverter or the backlight(s) (the video is ok to an external monitor)
or anything else please (and / or is this a common fault on this
model).

All the best .. and thanks for your time in any case ..

T i m (UK)




It's probably one of the lamps, but it may also be the inverter. Get
some new lamps, and wire them up to the inverter and see if it works, if
it does then take the trouble to install them in the display.