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Please help - Extremely Dim Screen
I have an inspirion 6000 with Windows XP Home. One day I just found my screen extremely dim. So dim I can only see enough to know the power is on and it gets rebooted correctly. My computer is functioning like normal but I cannot see the screen. It's almost a black screen. My battery light is on and I tried another fully charged dell battery from my friends dell laptop. I have already tried using [fn] to brighten up the screen. It didn't have any effect at all. I've also hooked up an external monitor but it didn't show anything on the external monitor. What should I do because my warranty has expired? Is there a recall for the screen because I see this is a problem for a lot of dell customers. Please advise.
Message Edited by babyxpink on 12-05-200601:27 AM
- In most cases it is the backlight. Unfortunately, that is the more expensive part of the two to replace. I've read that a defective inverter can sometimes be detected by a diagnostics test, but not a bad backlight. You might try running the Dell diagnostics first and see what it finds.Here are a few links on discussions of further ways to tell whether it is an inverter or backlight problem:
Message Edited by RoadiJeff on 12-07-200604:25 PM
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Posted December 5th, 2006 06:00