Re: TP755CD - backlight doesn't work

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From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Wed Jan 06 1999 - 02:07:31 EST

ES...

perhaps it is the HV card..
either in the top lid on in the base..
best guess its in the top.. and it will be difficult to find JUST THAT
part, i think..

best idea is find a used 755CE or CD with 'other' problems and swap the
display..

Eyvind Spangen wrote:

> My TP755CD has got a "annoying" error..
> The flourescent tube that is supposed to light up the LCD from the
> back, doesn't work. The previous owner tried changing the tube, but
> that didn't fix it. What is the problem, what can be done, and how
> expensive? The LCD itself is ok, if I point my desk light very close
> to it, I see the picture. But as it is now, I have to use an external
> display.
>
> The model is 9545-CDX with 10.4" TFT screen.
>
> ES 

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