Re: dell inspiron 8000 display fading

On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:03:21PM +0100, Jacques Caron wrote:
> I had the same kind of issue with an 8000 (two, actually) running bad old 
> W2K, and I believe it's actually a physical problem in the screen (the 
> backlight itself) or the "inverter board" that provides the power for the 
> backlight, something like that. On mine it was actually darker on one side 
> than the other. It seems that some software-controlled things can make it 
> come back to normal temporarily, like powercycle, switch to external 
> monitor and back, plug/unplug AC adapter, etc. (anything that will change 
> the backlight settings, in fact). Also, on mine reducing the backlight to a 
> very low setting reduced the occurence of the problem (at least temporarily).
> 
> Probably good for a trip back to Dell, hope you have a 3-year warranty... 
> Next problem on the line will be the battery dying :-(

Thanks. Unfortunately I only had (an already passed) 1 year warranty
and the battery died already (outside of warranty, of course) :-(


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