Hey Program Hackers! A small favor to ask...

Any chance of pulling apart the Dell QuickSet.exe to eliminate every command associated with changing or recognizing anything to do with the LCD screen? ...And then putting it back together so everything else works in it?

Here's my problem:
I recently joined the "Dell Dead Screen" club, and had to install a replacement. Unfortunately, QuickSet doesn't seem to like the replacement very much, and refuses to come on. It gives me an error message and pukes out on me.
Running the Dell Diagnostics Tool also tells me the inverter doesn't pass the smell-test. But the screen works great. Beautiful. No dead or stuck pixels, etc. No WAY am I changing it out just so QuickSet will work!

But QuickSet also controls the other Fn keys, and allows my multimedia keys to start Windows Player, etc. I've lost all that function with the QuickSet being gone.

I figure if QuickSet could be made to ignore all screen related issues in all the power schemes, etc, then it might allow all the other stuff to function.

So far I have tried reinstalling and all that crap, I've tried monkeying with regedits and such, and even changing BIOS versions back and forth; all to no avail. It's over my head, but just might be a cakewalk for some of the gurus out there.

Thanks for looking.

This is for a 9200, BTW, in case there are other suggestions. Currently I use different software to control audio and LCD brightness, but the LCD brightness is NOT actually changing the backlight brightness. It changes the color brightness via the GPU. I'm content to live without changing the screen. I just want all the other functions back; particularly my Fn keys.

 

The inverter itself is a small piece of the notebook, and I think it's just a cable that is connected to the laptop. If it's failing the smell test, Dell has to replace it...if you want them to. I'd give them a call and ask if that involves changing the whole screen out.

 

No, please, pu-leeeeze don't do this to me.
No warrantee.
LCD was purchased off Ebay & installed by me.
LCD is a newer model LG that wasn't even around when the 9200 came out, so the BIOS (even the revision) doesn't have it listed.
BIOS setup screen brightness adjustment has no effect.
I've tried a Sharp screen.
I've tried a Sharp inverter.
I've tried the old Samsung inverter.
I've tried all combinations.
I've even run the Dell diagnostics test with the original Samsung screen and inverter installed and it failed. (It didn't fail before I stared swapping screens.)

I've been through it all. I just wanna know about the Quickset program.