Cure for M570U/Sager 5720 screen will not shut off issue

I've had my M570U now for over a year and a half. It gets used for at least two hours a day, every day, unless I'm on a trip. Has held up like a champ and hasn't hiccuped once, save for a niggly yet potentially major issue. I like leaving my machine on 24/7 so I can access it while away. Not a problem, except if your screen stops turning off! This niggle frustrated me to no end, so tonight I bit the bullet and pulled off the screen bezel to see if I could find the problem. Boy did I!

Turns out the mechanism to turn the screen off isn't mechanical. The Clevo uses a reed switch in the base of the notebook with a piece of metal TAPED inside the screen bezel. YES TAPED. The reason it fails? Over the years the heat cycling causes the tape to pull away and the metal falls away from the bezel. This is why squeezing the bottom of the screen can make it shut off, it gets the metal close enough to do the trick.

It really is an easy fix, just unscrew the three screws at the bottom and four screws across the top (behind the rubber feet), carefully pull the bezel off, look at the bottom and re-secure the metal at the bottom left. Or, if you don't feel like taking the thing apart you can always try different bits of metal to see what works to turn it off, then tape one to the base of the screen. That should solve the problem with no disassembly required. So long as you trigger the reed switch, the screen will turn off.