Comments on: LCD screen recently went dark

By: thony

thony — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:04:47 +0000

A friend laptop battery is no working so its always connect to electricity but after unplugging the charger line the time resets back to 1980 and the date too resets. what could be the problem?

By: Jon Joseba

Jon Joseba — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:39:20 +0000

Hi! my problem is different; the laptop is a Toshiba M55, an at first the screen became black but i connected it to an external monitor and the problem dissapeared. However, a guy saw the laptop, but since he took up it, it doesn´t works in an external monitor, the wifi led doesn´t switch on, and the capital letter led too. The laptop runs, but i don´t know exactly what is running…i´m dissambling it to check it, and i think the problem is the motherboard. Any suggestion?

Sorry for my English, I´m from Spain.

By: Hank

Hank — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 12:45:26 +0000

I recently had a problem with my Dell Inspiron 120 LCD going out after post 3-10 seconds LCD was lit then dark. The computer was booting into Windows with a dark screen. I Plugged up an external CRT monitor then booted up with windows operating and then reloaded the video driver from the control panel/system icon/Hardware tab/Device manager button/display adapter steps. It’s now working.

By: ITMAX

ITMAX — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:41:25 +0000

A friend dropped a laptop into my proverbial laptop
its an HP pavillion DV5000 with an Ultra Glossy finish LCD
the LCD works fine in post, in bios etc, shows the XP logo
then goes black before the Desktop appears, I have tried to boot into safe mode and the same thing happens.

I hooked up an external monitor and it works fine, I changed the display settings to 800×600 lowest setting 60hz no change after a reboot, I removed the old drivers and used generic windows xp video drivers.. notta

with the lcd working normally to the point of the windows xp logo, it would appear that high res graphics are whats putting it out? the GUI for XP as an example? with the external working fine, i would say the video adapter itself is functioning, so would replacing the LCD be the solution? or the inverter board by itself ?

By: Bruce Gove

Bruce Gove — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:10:14 +0000

I had to replace the lcd screen on my Toshiba Tecra m2. I installed it and it worked fine for about 20 minutes then flickered and went dim. The inverter got way to hot! I replaced the inverter and the same thing happened. Maybe just a bad inverter, so I replaced it. Installed the second inverter and the same thing is about to happen, the inverter is getting very hot. What could it be? Could the new screen be causing this? Or am I just not lucky with inverter boards?

By: nina

nina — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:54:27 +0000

I have also problem with LCD display; I have a dell latitude D531; mine laptop works well but I have no display, I need to use external monitor; I decided to make a diagnostic test of the problem; and I encountered an error code 0413 “LCD Cable niet detected”; any idea what is this ; can anyone helps me to solve my problem;

By: Corey

Corey — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:20:13 +0000

I have a dell inspiron 1520. along with my old pos e machines laptop that only works once in a while but my question is,

Is it passable to connect the LCD from the old laptop to the new one somehow and run it as a second monitor or something like that? if not then thanks anyways

By: tony

tony — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:37:43 +0000

I have a gateway laptop. The screen started acting up when the screen saver is on by showing vading of the object all over the screen. Now screen flashes on and off. Gateway sold warranty to another company and that company went out of business. Does anyone have any ideas what is wrong with it.

By: Tom Monahan

Tom Monahan — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 18:03:34 +0000

I have a problem similar to the Dell D810 described above except there is no pink tint before warmup. I’m working with a Dell Inspiron 600m. When cold after a few seconds the screen would go dark. Sometimes after 8-10 restarts the LCD lit up and stayed lit, but eventually wouldn’t light at all. I replaced the inverter with a used one off Ebay, and now the LCD still goes dark after a couple of seconds when cold, but after only 2 or 3 tries, the lamp noticeably flickers for several seconds then stays on and the display looks crisp and normal. Could this still be the backlight or should I try another inverter? Is the flat cable ever a problem?

By: Anthony Decker

Anthony Decker — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:39:35 +0000

how do i repair or replace the backlight of my hp 510 laptop