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    averatec 2300 series

    Discussion in 'Other Manufacturers' started by foredan, Jul 30, 2007.

  1. foredan

    foredan Newbie

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    help please,averatec,2300 ,i turn it on and screen flickers and goes dark,i can see all the lights blinking and the batt if fully charged,just started doing this tonite,running xp...thanks for your help.
     
    foredan, Jul 30, 2007
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  2. scottyinco

    scottyinco Notebook Evangelist

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    how does it work with an external monitor connected? that will let us know whether it's something in the display, or possibly a bad motherboard or memory. have you contacted averatec? is it under warranty?
     
    scottyinco, Jul 30, 2007
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  3. Seraphim

    Seraphim Notebook Enthusiast

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    Plug in an external monitor, then start up the laptop. If the external monitor shows the bios screen and the lappy doesn't then there's probably a screen or inverter problem.

    If that's the case, good luck contacting averatec support.
     
    Seraphim, Jul 30, 2007
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    foredan Newbie

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    scottyinco,hi,i just plugged it in to ext mon,and its working on that.
     
    foredan, Jul 30, 2007
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  5. scottyinco

    scottyinco Notebook Evangelist

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    so then it's probably a loose connection on your lcd inverter in the lcd case. i would reseat the cables on the lcd inverter before anything else.
     
    scottyinco, Jul 30, 2007
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  6. Seraphim

    Seraphim Notebook Enthusiast

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    There are 4 rubber pads on the front of the screen. They just pop right off with the edge of a flat head screw driver.

    Using a philips take out the 4 screws holding the front screen panel in place and at the bottom of that panel you'll see a rectangular cylinder with two plugs going into it.

    There's your inverter housing and one of those probably came loose.
     
    Seraphim, Jul 31, 2007
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    fuelscience Notebook Enthusiast

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    Make sure that it's really the lcd and not the backlight. My wife's Averatec recently lost the backlight. At first we thought that it was the lcd, but by looking carefully with light reflected at just the right angle, we realized that the image was there. We had just lost the backlight.
     
    fuelscience, Aug 1, 2007
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