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From: schraudo@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Nici Schraudolph)
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Subject: Re: The vanishing screen . . .
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TURGUT@TREARN.BITNET (Turgut Kalfaoglu) writes:

>The screen seems to have fluorescent tubes, and I suspect one of them
>died on you.

From what I've seen most laptops use fluorescent sheets for backlighting;
they glow when injected with AC current.  With age they get less efficient
and just kind of fade away.

Although you can order replacement sheets from electronics wholesalers,
getting them into place and hooked up right behind your display is not
easy - a friend of mine tried, and his display is a bit of a mess now.
Has anybody out there done this repair successfully?

-- 
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