And the stroke was in the left hand side of the CPU (which controls the
right hand side of the monitor).
Ray Shahan
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Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 4:36 PM
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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: HP laptop tech support *#%^ !!
Maybe it had a stroke
-------------- Original message from Roy Brown
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> In message <[log in to unmask]>,
Denys
> Beauchemin writes
> >Sounds like a problem I had last summer. The backlight went out on my
> >notebook. Turns out the inverter (takes DC power and turns it into AC
power
> >for the light) was defective.
> >
> >Using a powerful flash light I could see the display on the screen.
Since
> >my notebook is my only system, I could not send it for several days,
and
> >risk having the disk reformatted to fix the inverter, I took it to a
local
> >repair shop and they got the proper parts ordered and gave me back
the
> >notebook while we waited for the parts. Back in my office, I
connected a
> >monitor to the notebook. When the notebook booted, it recognized the
> >monitor and transferred the output to it. When it was up, using my
> >flashlight, I was able to log in and make the external monitor the
primary
> >monitor.
> >
> >When the parts came in, I took the notebook back to the local shop
and they
> >replaced the parts in about an hour. They replaced the backlight and
the
> >panel itself (2 separate parts) and they also replaced the inverter,
so here
> >parts in all. I do not know why the replaced the panel and the
backlight as
> >the problem was with the inverter, but since it was all under
warranty, I
> >didn't care.
> >
> >So get yourself a big flashlight (torch for the Brits) and search
your
> >screen. Good luck.
> >
> >Denys
>
> You are all cordially invited, then, to wonder what might be wrong
with
> my laptop. Same Toshiba Satellite P30 as Denys', also blank screen
> issues, but only half of it.
>
> The left-hand side of the screen is fine. The right-hand side - from
an
> absolute vertical pixel-perfect cut-off precisely half-way across the
> screen - is black. And real, nothing-to-see-even-with-a-torch black.
>
> Mostly. Sometimes the girl on the sunbed appears for a little while
when
> the machine is first switched on, but then she shimmers, elongates
like
> a Dali watch, and is gone.
>
> All is just fine on my TFT monitor, so I don't suspect the video card.
>
> I spent a torrid few days downgrading back to my Vaio FX401 (max
256meg
> RAM, 20gig hard drive, 800 MHz processor), so I could keep computing
on
> the move. About 8 software products to move across, and 20 months of'
> security updates to catch up on; antivirus, firewall and of course XP
> itself.
>
> Only 50 Windows updates behind though, fortunately; it was already on
XP
> SP2 before I functionally stabilised it (for which read 'tossed it in
a
> closet'). Though I wonder why 42 updates sailed through unattended,
and
> then #43 wanted to talk to me? Ho hum.
>
> The Tosh was picked up this afternoon by Topaz, some Tosh specialists
in
> the UK who sound like they know what they are doing; I trust they
won't
> need to reformat the hard drive, but if they do, I have everything *I*
> ever put on the machine on a single DVD (of which I have 2 copies!),
and
> Bill Gates is looking after the rest of it for me in the meantime,
> pretty much.
>
> I can't imagine what the problem is - you can't get half a lamp
burning
> out (can you?) - unless it's a dead simple thing like a cable coming
> adrift in there. I'll keep you posted.....
>
> --
> Roy Brown 'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be
> Kelmscott Ltd useful, or believe to be beautiful' William Morris
>
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