Gehan writes:

> Please provide the exact problem description.
>  
>  | When I turn the computer on, the power comes on, the fans start up,
>  the computer does it's beeps and seems to boot normally. The problem
>  is you can't see any of it. The screen is black, blank, dead, cold,
>  however you want to word it. It's like the power cable to the screen
>  has been cut or something. It dosn't even flash anything for a split
>  second, it just stays off(the screen) It was working fine and then one
>  day this week I opened it up and it wasn't working

The problem is that the lamp in your LCD panel has burnt out. This is a 
fairly common problem.

The lamp provides the backlight that allows you to see the patterns that the 
little liquid crystal cells are creating on the screen. Without it, the screen 
appears black, but not quite. If you hold a flashlight up to the screen, or 
if the PC is a laptop and you can take it to a brightly lit window and look at 
the screen at an angle, you can see a faint hint of the standard patterns you 
should be seeing.

The only cure is to change out the entire LCD panel assembly. The lamp is 
sealed in the panel and cannot be changed by itself.

Wirt Atmar

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