Sorry. I don't visit this newsgroup regularly, and I just didn't scroll
back far enough to see your post on the 18th. No intention of ignoring your
post...just didn't see it.

This thread got me to remember this one time when a laptop display would not
light up. It turned out to be a jammed plastic pin (like an on/off switch)
that normally got pushed down when the laptop was closed (thus opening the
circuit), and got released when the laptop was opened (thus closing the
circuit). Since it was jammed it never fully released to close the circuit.

Fabian

"jakdedert" wrote in message
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hemyd wrote:
"Fabian Fuller" wrote in message
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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