Laptop screen gone dark

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hansov

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I am feeling my way around this problem in the dark so to speak so would welcome suggestions on what to do.

This is a friends problem and I want to see can I solve it for him. I have not seen the laptop but from what he describes, and my subsequent googling, suggests that the invertor and/or backlight is kaput.

Laptop is a Patriot 3005 (PC World - out of warranty etc.) and he says that he can now hardly read the screen. I hope to hook up an external monitor to it to see if that works okay. Do I just plug in the monitor or do I need to press a Function key? I was hoping that he did something in the Control Panel to blacken the screen rather than it being a physical problem such as an invertor/backlight.

Failing all this - anybody able to suggest a laptop repair shop in Dublin that might be able to fit a new invertor/backlight. Thanks in advance.....
 
hansov said:
This is a friends problem and I want to see can I solve it for him. I have not seen the laptop but from what he describes, and my subsequent googling, suggests that the invertor and/or backlight is kaput.
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Definitely not simply a case of having turned down the display brightness via function keys or something like that?
Do I just plug in the monitor or do I need to press a Function key?
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Probably both - hook up the monitor and press some function key combination to use the external monitor. The manual should say.
Failing all this - anybody able to suggest a laptop repair shop in Dublin that might be able to fit a new invertor/backlight. Thanks in advance.....
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If it was me then having established what the cause of the problem is I would start Googling for info on how it might be addressed first. I have a feeling that a repair (other than a DIY one if possible) may not be cost effective.
 
Okay. Have the laptop, hooked up the monitor and unfortunately its not a brightness control thing. Don't know the next course of action as this is not my lappie; and he is heading for a repair (if he can somebody to do it) rather than a new machine.
 
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Failing all this - anybody able to suggest a laptop repair shop in Dublin that might be able to fit a new invertor/backlight. Thanks in advance.....
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The only one I know is http://www.computersunlimited.ie/ I left a laptop in for repair but it wasn't economically worth repairing when they came back with a quote. 200-300 for a new motherboard. But they couldn't find anywhere that supplied the part. There was a fee for looking at it €45. Bought a new one for 405. Instead. 4yrs newer, better spec and a 1yr warranty.
 
I would try eBay for a similar laptop that is selling for spares maybe. [broken link removed]?
 
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