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iamslotman · 02-05-2008, 07:40 AM

My daughters laptop went suddenly black 9 months ago and she has been using it connected to an external monitor. She bought a new laptop and I am hoping I can repair this one to give my son. I read many posts and I tried messing with the cover switch to no avail. Some posts talk about a screen replacement, others say a backlight, and others say change the inverter. Anyway to isolate the problem and is it something a novice can do? I know which end of a screwdriver to hold, but I am more a duct tape surgeon than a brain surgeon. Any estimate the cost of a repair if I send it to a service like Bestbuy? The people here were very helpful with the missing oleaut32.dll file problem and now I hoping to fix the screen problem. I am waiting for a new OS disk from HP and then I will reload XP Pro.

02-05-2008, 07:40 AM	#1 (permalink)
iamslotman Registered User Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 25 OS: XP Pro SP2	Black screen zv6000 My daughters laptop went suddenly black 9 months ago and she has been using it connected to an external monitor. She bought a new laptop and I am hoping I can repair this one to give my son. I read many posts and I tried messing with the cover switch to no avail. Some posts talk about a screen replacement, others say a backlight, and others say change the inverter. Anyway to isolate the problem and is it something a novice can do? I know which end of a screwdriver to hold, but I am more a duct tape surgeon than a brain surgeon. Any estimate the cost of a repair if I send it to a service like Bestbuy? The people here were very helpful with the missing oleaut32.dll file problem and now I hoping to fix the screen problem. I am waiting for a new OS disk from HP and then I will reload XP Pro.