Laptop screen problem

[budpins]

I have a HP laptop with a 15.4" glossy screen. I was wondering if anyone has had their LCD screen go very dim and what they did to fix it. Any local shops want to replace the whole thing, $800. I can still see the display if there is light shining on it. Shame that the machine only cost $1300 about 16 months ago.

[David Pozzi]

I have a 14" HP that would go dim to the point you could barely see the white HP logo on the upper right. At first I thought it wasn't working at all, but when I looked very close, I saw the logo, then adjusted the brightness up and saw a little more. I closed the cover and opened it a fiew times and it came back on full brightness. This happened 6 or 8 times for no good reason.

I don't know if there was a problem with the switch that triggers shut down when you close the lid, or what. Restarting seemed to help too. It still happens once in a while.

Hope it's something simple like mine.
David

[zbugger]

Sounds to me like the backlight is dying.

[lowfat69]

Could be one of two things, could be the backlight itself or the inverter which generates the high voltage to power the backlight. The inverter's are relatively inexpensive if you can buy them - but you'll probably find you can't buy the backlight seperately and will need to replace the whole lcd panel (expensive).

Cheers
Mark

[Restomod]

You are a few days late I juist sold the screen and battery/ac adapter from my old HP. Keep your eye on Ebay they pop up there, cheap.

[budpins]

Thanks for all your help guys.

[fotoboy]

did you try function f8

[budpins]

of course. It has nothing to do with my settings. It's just that the machine realized it was two months out of warranty and decided to injure itself.