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    Default Help my lap top screen is going dark

    The LCD of my lap top keeps flashing and going dark and then light again. I thought it was the battery at first but it's 100% charged plus Im actually connected to the power anyway right now.

    It's been doing it for the last couple of days.

    Any ideas of what's wrong with it?
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    Default Re: Help my lap top screen is going dark

    It could be the light behind the screen. It blew on my old laptop, and now it won't start up. It started out doing the same thing yours is doing - flickering, flashing, going back to normal. If that is the case, it can be pretty costly to fix.

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    Default Re: Help my lap top screen is going dark

    ^^
    would it be covered by warranty? it's still within the warranty.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jaizaine View Post
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    would it be covered by warranty? it's still within the warranty.
    Yes, it should be. It's a pretty standard thing that happens to laptops, so I can't imagine it wouldn't be covered. Mine blew like a month after my warranty ran out. It wouldn't have been expensive to buy the part (the bulb), but I had no idea how to replace it. I could have just bought a new monitor, but that was 3/4 the cost of buying a new laptop, so that's what I did.

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    Default Re: Help my lap top screen is going dark

    Loose connections between the screen and laptop can cause this as well. There is the video "card" to display connection, and the inverter and power connection, closing and opening the laptop can strech the cables.
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    Default Re: Help my lap top screen is going dark

    Yeah, get it back in and make them fix or replace it. Don't let them fiddle with it until the warranty runs out. If it were out of warranty, I'd have some suggestiosn for fixing it inexpensively, but why fix it when the manufacturer is supposed to fix it for you?

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    Default Re: Help my lap top screen is going dark

    thanks guys.
    i paid for an extended warranty so i may as well make use of it.

    should i back up all my files? is there a chance i could loose files when this gets fixed?
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    Some of the most effortlessly beautiful, kind, intelligent, successful, motivated, driven and ridiculously hilarious women that I have ever met have been dancers. I've met the best friends that I've ever had in this industry.

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    If it gets sent somewhere always backup the files. Hell if you bring it anywhere, backup the files.
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