Help please? Is my laptop dying??

Got2change

Hi -
sorry, I don't come on this part of the forum much but please can anyone possibly advise me.....? (I am not v clever with computers and such)

The screen just died!

It wasn't simply as though I had lost my internet connection (tiscali); there was just nothing - although the On lights were still green on the computer itself but nothing I did would make anything visible, the screen was just black.

Don't know if it's also relevant but the opening screen (befor the Windows XP screen) seemed to have a pinkish tinge to it.....?

It's a Dell Inspiron 1200 if that helps - and I have never ever had a problem with it or in the internet.

I'm very worred; I can't live without it.

Oh, by the way,it has come back - but on the second attempt and I am scared it will go off again.

Can anyone please advise if it is fatal?


(Pretty please....)

jaydeeuk1

It could be a loose or broken video cable - this would give the pinkish tinge to the screen. If you close and then open the lid slowly, does the picture flicker/change colours etc? Fairly easy to repair, about half an hour to an hours labour plus price of a cable at a guess. Depends how difficult it is to get to!

nomoneytoday

Can you plug in an external monitor?
That will help determine if it's the cable (fairly easy to fix) or the gfx card (harder to fix)

[Deleted User]

It's probably the CCFL or the actuator.

Is it under warranty or not?

nembot

anewhope wrote: »

It's probably the CCFL or the actuator.

Is it under warranty or not?

I would tend to agree, take it outside in the daylight, can you see the image on the screen at all - possibly just the backlight has broke.

nomoneytoday

anewhope wrote: »

It's probably the CCFL or the actuator.

I thought it was more likely to be the flux capacitor

Got2change

jaydeeuk1 wrote: »

It could be a loose or broken video cable - this would give the pinkish tinge to the screen. If you close and then open the lid slowly, does the picture flicker/change colours etc? Fairly easy to repair, about half an hour to an hours labour plus price of a cable at a guess. Depends how difficult it is to get to!

Thank you so much for your reply.
Well, as you can no doubt guess, the laptop was taken critically ill - it spent three weeks with somene who had said quite blithely that "Oh yes, it's the invertor - leave it with us....". Suffice to say that I am now using it with a newly purchased separate monitor as it was finally given back to me - unfixed - and I can't be without it any longer.
BUT, I can't go on like this - and it was nice to hear that it could be a simple (?) as a video cable. It did/does have pink tinge to everything before it goes off completely and an image is visible very indistinctly. So, is that something I could ask the new repair man to look at do you think?

Browntoa

guide here

http://www.laptoprepair.co.uk/how-to-repair-backlight-inverter.htm

Got2change

nomoneytoday wrote: »

Can you plug in an external monitor?
That will help determine if it's the cable (fairly easy to fix) or the gfx card (harder to fix)

Yes, I can. That's what I am now doing but it has to be a temporary measure.......