Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 14:07:31 +0100 From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: Jacques Caron <Jacques.Caron@IPsector.com> Cc: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@physik.rwth-aachen.de>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dell inspiron 8000 display fading Message-ID: <20030220140731.A29941@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030220125637.02518a88@pop.mail.yahoo.com>; from Jacques.Caron@IPsector.com on Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:03:21PM %2B0100 References: <200302201120.MAA28324@accms33.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <5.2.0.9.0.20030220125637.02518a88@pop.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:03:21PM +0100, Jacques Caron wrote: > I had the same kind of issue with an 8000 (two, actually) running bad old > W2K, and I believe it's actually a physical problem in the screen (the > backlight itself) or the "inverter board" that provides the power for the > backlight, something like that. On mine it was actually darker on one side > than the other. It seems that some software-controlled things can make it > come back to normal temporarily, like powercycle, switch to external > monitor and back, plug/unplug AC adapter, etc. (anything that will change > the backlight settings, in fact). Also, on mine reducing the backlight to a > very low setting reduced the occurence of the problem (at least temporarily). > > Probably good for a trip back to Dell, hope you have a 3-year warranty... > Next problem on the line will be the battery dying :-( Thanks. Unfortunately I only had (an already passed) 1 year warranty and the battery died already (outside of warranty, of course) :-( -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kukulies@rwth-aachen.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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