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Viking Chat => Off Topic => Topic started by: billdoor on June 12, 2011, 08:13:59 pm
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When i turn my laptop on. The screen goes dark. I close the lid for 10 seconds and the screen comes back on when i flip the screen up. This only lasts a few seconds and then it goes dark again. I can just make out whats on the screen but not enough to be able to work on it.
After a few dozen times of doing this it seems to work ok(hence this message). Also when i put my battery charger on,the screen will go dark straight away.
Any ideas anyone?
Cheers
P.s. My laptop is a compaq presario CQ60
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The battery might be on power save.
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Have a look in the control panel in the power options menu. It may be something set in there. You can set different behaviours for when it's charging and when it's not.
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Thanks guys. It gave up the ghost before i could see any of your replies. It ended up,that the screen had gone. £90 to fix.
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Have you tried turning it off amd back on again? :chair:
Edit : In all seriousness, is it the screen (lcd panel) or the inverter? If its the inverter, I've just taken one out of a working laptop, and you are welcome to give it a go for nowt. Replacing the screen or inverter is an absolute doddle. In fact, I made a brand new laptop up on monday night from parts from 2 dead ones, and it is now running quite happily (hence whu I have a spare inverter knocking about).
I'm going to call the new laptop \"Frankenstein\".
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The fault does sound like the inverter.
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Thought as much. Billdoor, PM me and you can have this spare one I've got.