Laptoppery for Luddites

[Pillock]

plus pillock gets to see what pr0n you look at

THEY NEVER PROVED NUFFINK.

[Pillock]

It also has a really annoying habit of when you are working and the screen suddenly goes blank (sort of grey colour) and I have to switch it off and back on again, losing anything you were doing. As it only does it when it's been on for a couple of hours or more they didn't find anything wrong. ARSE

I think that is the Inverter for the screen.Something as simple as leaking caps can cause this (Happened on a REALLY old dell that i had - Windows 98 )

Meh. Normally just a loose cable! Four screws to take the LCD surround off, pull the cables from the inverter (the thin green thing at the bottom), plug 'em back in, sorted. And I used to get paid for that

[Angrydicky]

It also has a really annoying habit of when you are working and the screen suddenly goes blank (sort of grey colour) and I have to switch it off and back on again, losing anything you were doing. As it only does it when it's been on for a couple of hours or more they didn't find anything wrong. ARSE

I think that is the Inverter for the screen.Something as simple as leaking caps can cause this (Happened on a REALLY old dell that i had - Windows 98 )

Meh. Normally just a loose cable! Four screws to take the LCD surround off, pull the cables from the inverter (the thin green thing at the bottom), plug 'em back in, sorted. And I used to get paid for that

Sorry Pillock, is that the screen surround?Cheers

[Pillock]

Yeah, the LCD bezel/screen surround/frontcase/display bezel - lots of different names for the plastic rectangle around the edge of the display.Normally just take out any obvious screws, then fingers against the LCD screen, twist it out inner edge first. Hard to explain, but if you pull the inner edge towards you then it releases any plastic clips on the outer edge, holding the front to the back.Watch out for any springs that might be hiding in a catch at the top too - if you have one. They can ping out and be lost forever.