hemyd wrote:
"Fabian Fuller" wrote in message
et...
From having repaired laptops with dark displays by replacing the inverter,
the inverter was always a small circuit card separate from the lights. I
don't know if LCD TV's are similar. But, if they are similar, then Slang
would seem to have a point in suggesting the inverter may be broken...the
inverter, not the lights.

"Ken G." wrote in message
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Read the whole post . I said the lights are working


Having repaired a few thousand IBM Thinkpads over the last five or six
years, I agree that it is probably the inverter. On an IBM, and probably
many if not most other brands, it is a small narrow card mounted under the
LCD Panel. It is also relatively inexpensive.

Henry Mydlarz



Well, I'd have appreciated 'some' sort of reply myself when I posted a
similar problem with a laptop [subject: Gateway M305 -- 10/18] this
week. I guess ya'll figured I had it in hand. I'm still waiting for my
eBayed inverter, and I leave town today....

Inverters 'can be' cheap. Cheaper than a new laptop, at least. But
they're expensive enough that it's worth shopping around. I found
inverters for this one ranging from the $20 'pull' I ordered, up to
almost $100.

On a laptop more than a couple years old, it would only be worth fixing
if one can find a deal....

jak