Amilo L1300, backlight shuts down

I have Fujitsu Siemens Amilo L1300 laptop which apparently has bad backlight or bad connection somewhere relating to the backlight. When I boot up the machine, I can see picture on screen briefly but then the light shuts down. There is still faint image on the screen and the machine works perfectly with external display. If I tilt the display up and down the light comes up usually in the middle and when I am lifting the screen up. It shuts down though, just as it does on boot up.

Bad backlight or bad connection?

Second question would be how do I remove the display bezel? There are no screws to remove, not even under the rubber pads. On both sides there are two latches (?), should I just pry the bezel out? Seems like very brutal way which usually means damage when dealing with computers

Here is picture from the side:

http://lolled.net/kuvaus2/out.php?i=4221_amilo.jpg

And yes, the screen is dirty. Haven't cleaned it after I got the machine.

 

Backlight/inverter cable bad. Random connecting/disconnecting one wire inside the cable when you move the display.

I don't remember ever opening that model, so I don't dare to give any hints In a dv5 the bezel had no screws either, it was just opened by lifting bezel from the inside edge.

 

I disassembled the laptop a bit and noticed that if I push the small tab which tells the display to shut down and release it the screen will blink so that explains why it would blink when lifting the screen up. I also forgot to mention that the picture is reddish (is that a word? sorry, english is not my native language ). But the picture seems like it is missing color channels, not on external display.

 

Neither is mine

Missing colors point to broken LCD cable and that might mean that LCD/inverter cable is combined as one, if there still is the inverter cable issue too.

Is that tab directly on motherboard or with a wire? If wired, try to disconnect it. Then you lose ability to shut down display but it might stop flickering. Don't cut the cable, you might want to put it back some day.

 

Most of Amilo laptops have this problem - inverters are something that has to be changed every year or so. Some tape all over the inverter is perfect solution for the beginning while looking for the new inverter. I had 2 different fujitsu notebooks, both had the same problem, it is annoying, but fortunately, problem is easy fixed and inverters are not so expensive.