4 Jun
2018
4 Jun
'18
1:59 p.m.
On 2018-06-04 09:44, Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I'd start by looking at the inverter board. From pictures online, it looks like that laptop uses an blue electroluminescent sheet for the backlight, not a ccfl like more modern laptops. -J
EL backlighting has a fairly short halflife I believe.
Maybe it's possible to get a new sheet of it.
http://glowhut.com/el-panel/ implies "yes." It hadn't occurred to me that laptop screens could be EL-lit, I've only see it on small alphanumeric LCDs. Still requires a functioning inverter, which I'd guess is the real problem here. Bad caps, probably. (Keenly aware of this after my Thinkpad 600E's backlight inverter gave it up two days before VCF East!) -- Jameel Akari