steven alan

Thanks for that , BUT and its a big but, acording to the acer aspire 1703sc pdf (from there site) the motherboard has inbuilt sis vga (which I asume takes over should all else fail,I downloaded the sis zip file and low and behold it finds the chipset and installs giving you something like 1040 by 980 at 32 bit col will not go higher so guess it must be taking over from the nvida display card) I,m not very well informed on these things but do you think that this could be right?, that was the origanal question, is it possible to get this output to the built in lcd? if so that would do me. on the otherside of things have taken the screen caseing off to get at the inverter (now go it off ,have run a circuit tester over the 2 blocks of copper wire wound things (dont have a clue as to what they are called) and there is a circuit tho 3 of them but not the fourth so going to see if rs components can get them or if they have them in stock, and will unsolder them and replace all 4 (they are the black oblong blocks (2 off) each side of a small plug in the center of the inverter plug looks like the cd audio plugs on a cd drive (not the long plug thr small white one)) has to be cheaper than 99 quid for a new one, plus if its allready broke not got a lot to loose have I by replacing as they are only surface solder on to the board, replacing these not only because of the non circuit test but they look like they have burn marks on the windings, any info on what these little buggers are called or what they do would be of help, will keep you informed of progress, never know if it works for me replacing them you tec guys should be able to do it no problems and guess these high prices for inverters then go out the window, (that is if all you need to do is replace these things? asuming you can buy them that is)
thanks again
steven