I guess it depends on the repair cost and how you need to use the
laptop.  It's not too portable if you need to bring a monitor with
you, but it may be fine for desktop use.  I needed a backlight
replaced 2 years ago on a Toshiba 420CDS, quoted price was $200.
If you can do it yourself, you can probably pick up the part for
under $50.  Could also be a bad power inverter- they seem to run a
little higher.  Parts also show up on ebay.  Backlight is like a
small flourescent tube, about the size of a pencil.  You can find
sites with details how to change it.

Russ Cox wrote:

> I aquired a Toshiba Tecra laptop (Pentium 3, 667 MHz, 256M RAM, Win XP) that has a dead backlight.  I can barely see the image on the laptop screen.  Works just fine with an external monitor.  Is it feasible and cost effective  to replace the backlight lamp? Russ Cox
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