There is also a 'backlight' in the display, similar to a mini
flourescent bulb. If that broke or burned out, no display. Local
shop in NYC wanted $200 to repair this on a toshiba about 2 years
ago...
Brady Burke wrote:
> Take a flashlight and shine it on the display if you can see the desktop
> the inverter is bad or you can hook it up to an external monitor to see if
> the video card is bad.
>
> Brady
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chilangisha B Changwe" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 7:17 PM
> Subject: [PCBUILD]
>
>
> A friends sony laptop has just gone blank. When you power it up you
> hear the fan running and LED's flashing and also the CD ROM running
> but the display remains blank. Could be it that the some wires
> running to the display are loose or cut somewhere?
>
> Chilangisha Changwe
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