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Backlight goes out..

Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by acidice333, Dec 25, 2006.

acidice333 Notebook Enthusiast

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So my AR150G's backlight decided to go out today.. I bought it new from eBay this month, it had the cover thing for the keyboard and was wrapped still sealed in the box with no finger prints or anything.

I can boot up and it works fine using external display. With the internal display, its really hard to see unless u put a light source shining the screen.

If I press fn-f7 to change monitor outputs, when it changes to LCD output the backlight comes on for a breif second then goes back off.

I don't think this is a software problem, cause even upon bootup its all dark even in the BIOS setup. LCD brightness is set to max, but no change.

Is it common for the backlight to go out? =/

acidice333, Dec 25, 2006

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MYK Newbie NBR Reviewer

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Maybe the connector is loose. Or something is broken, is it covered?

MYK, Dec 25, 2006

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No, I don't think its common at all. Unfortunately, this just steers me totally away from buying used laptops off of Ebay.

Rahul, Dec 25, 2006

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I dont like buying expensive notebook on e-bay as well

FiReWoLf, Dec 25, 2006

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