Solve : screen is black, hard to read icons?

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Answer» Heres the problem, I have a Toshiba a45 s120, when I boot the laptop up the screen is very dark and the icons are hard to read. It has LCD panel., at first I thought it may have been the inverter. I bought a new one off of ebay. the problem still continues after I installed it. So I decide to disconnect the inverter from both ends and boot the computer up again. Same problem, dark screen and hard to read...any HELP or ideas??? ThankiesHave you TRIED adjusting the brightness? Fn + F7 http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_sc_docTOC.jsp?moid=555699&ct=UG&soid=587690&[email protected][email protected]&BV_EngineID=ccchaddflhdhhdecgfkceghdgngdgnj.0Test the graphics.......connect a monitor to the back of the laptop........or check you have not knocked the knob on the side of the laptop.........down the side of the led screen.Also check......power......connect the laptop to a mains adapter.....The main power adapter is pluggedin, I've adjust the brightness to see the icons better with the dark screen. The graphics is an Intel Extreme Graphics 2 for mobile, which I had to switch the graphics from the laptop screen to both laptop screen and monitor. We I first had this problem, my FATHER and I removed the keyboard to reveal the mother board. He used a samll insulated screwdriver and pressed slightly down on a contecter on the motherboard. I am not sure what the connecter is for, I'm assuming it is how the power is transfer from the battery (main power) to the inverter to the lcd screen. Any ideas? Thanks for your replies!!! Quote The main power adapter is pluggedin, I've adjust the brightness to see the icons better with the dark screen. The graphics is an Intel Extreme Graphics 2 for mobile, which I had to switch the graphics from the laptop screen to both laptop screen and monitor. We I first had this problem, my father and I removed the keyboard to reveal the mother board. He used a samll insulated screwdriver and pressed slightly down on a contecter on the motherboard. I am not sure what the connecter is for, I'm assuming it is how the power is transfer from the battery (main power) to the inverter to the lcd screen. Any ideas? Thanks for your replies!!! I have read your post above many times now & have come to the conclusion that we are not speaking the same language. In fact I suspect you are speaking Merlinspeak which I have only a limited understanding of. I wish you luck with your problem. LOL! Quote In fact I suspect you are speaking Merlinspeak which I have only a limited understanding of Poking AROUND with a screwdriver on a motherboard is not a good sign...........type dxdiag in the run box and test graphics......maybe your graphics card is failing...I can't imagine what you've done. Never poke around with a screwdriver on a motherboard ESPECIALLY when you don't know what you are doing. So what happed preceding this. And what happens with the external monitor? It WORKS OK?Yes the using another monitor works fine. I trust my father 100% with working on my laptop. He knows he's electronics, sincetheir are times he fixes electronic equipment with our business. I am trying to find other reasons beside the panel is in need of repair or the inverter is bad. If anyone happens to know how much voltage is transfered from the battery to threw the inverter to the panel. My cousin is the one who suggest the cable that connects from the battery to the inverter may have a short in it. He knows his computer stuff, he teaches it at a local university. Thanks again for the helpful replies.Lcd screen has had it......Well if 2 people who know 100% what they're doing can't fix it, I would say replace the LCD or buy another laptop, which will probably be cheaper.

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Heres the problem, I have a Toshiba a45 s120, when I boot the laptop up the screen is very dark and the icons are hard to read. It has LCD panel., at first I thought it may have been the inverter. I bought a new one off of ebay. the problem still continues after I installed it. So I decide to disconnect the inverter from both ends and boot the computer up again. Same problem, dark screen and hard to read...any HELP or ideas???
ThankiesHave you TRIED adjusting the brightness? Fn + F7
http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_sc_docTOC.jsp?moid=555699&ct=UG&soid=587690&[email protected][email protected]&BV_EngineID=ccchaddflhdhhdecgfkceghdgngdgnj.0Test the graphics.......connect a monitor to the back of the laptop........or check you have not knocked the knob on the side of the laptop.........down the side of the led screen.Also check......power......connect the laptop to a mains adapter.....The main power adapter is pluggedin, I've adjust the brightness to see the icons better with the dark screen. The graphics is an Intel Extreme Graphics 2 for mobile, which I had to switch the graphics from the laptop screen to both laptop screen and monitor.
We I first had this problem, my FATHER and I removed the keyboard to reveal the mother board. He used a samll insulated screwdriver and pressed slightly down on a contecter on the motherboard. I am not sure what the connecter is for, I'm assuming it is how the power is transfer from the battery (main power) to the inverter to the lcd screen. Any ideas? Thanks for your replies!!! Quote

The main power adapter is pluggedin, I've adjust the brightness to see the icons better with the dark screen. The graphics is an Intel Extreme Graphics 2 for mobile, which I had to switch the graphics from the laptop screen to both laptop screen and monitor.
We I first had this problem, my father and I removed the keyboard to reveal the mother board. He used a samll insulated screwdriver and pressed slightly down on a contecter on the motherboard. I am not sure what the connecter is for, I'm assuming it is how the power is transfer from the battery (main power) to the inverter to the lcd screen. Any ideas? Thanks for your replies!!!

I have read your post above many times now & have come to the conclusion that we are not speaking the same language. In fact I suspect you are speaking Merlinspeak which I have only a limited understanding of. I wish you luck with your problem. LOL!

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In fact I suspect you are speaking Merlinspeak which I have only a limited understanding of

Poking AROUND with a screwdriver on a motherboard is not a good sign...........type dxdiag in the run box and test graphics......maybe your graphics card is failing...I can't imagine what you've done. Never poke around with a screwdriver on a motherboard ESPECIALLY when you don't know what you are doing.

So what happed preceding this. And what happens with the external monitor? It WORKS OK?Yes the using another monitor works fine. I trust my father 100% with working on my laptop. He knows he's electronics, sincetheir are times he fixes electronic equipment with our business. I am trying to find other reasons beside the panel is in need of repair or the inverter is bad. If anyone happens to know how much voltage is transfered from the battery to threw the inverter to the panel. My cousin is the one who suggest the cable that connects from the battery to the inverter may have a short in it. He knows his computer stuff, he teaches it at a local university. Thanks again for the helpful replies.Lcd screen has had it......Well if 2 people who know 100% what they're doing can't fix it, I would say replace the LCD or buy another laptop, which will probably be cheaper.

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