Dell Inspiron 6000 blank display

mickb000

Looking for any help you people might be able to give me. I have dell laptop and the screen as gone blank and now i have very feint images on the screen. I don't know if i have hit any buttons by mistake. Any help please.

Browntoa

sounds like the backlight has blown

do you see anytning at all when it boots up or is it all faint ??

Browntoa

http://www.techno-mart.co.uk/dell_inspiron_6000.html

Inspiron 6000 Backlight & inverters
The laptop switches on but the screen remains dark. In some cases a faint image is visible on the screen. This problem can be caused by a faulty fluorescent light, inverter, video cable or a problem on the motherboard. Special equipment is required to determine the exact cause of the fault. Backlights use very high voltages and it is easy to cause more damage to the system if they are not correctly handled and installed. Our engineers can replace the backlight lamps in most TFT/LCD screens. We also have access to most backlight inverters and cables. We can also perform repairs on some very rare inverters. It is very easy to destroy an expensive LCD/TFT when removing/installing the CCFL. Our engineers are trained using broken LCD panels before they can work on a customer's LCD/TFT unit

motorguy

It sounds like its the inverter.

Take the screen surround off and along the bottom of the screen you should see a long thin silver unit with wires at one end. Get the serial number off it and type that into ebay search.

Shouldnt cost more than about £30 delivered.

mickb000

Thanks to everybody for replies. Is there any checks i can do to find out if it is the inverter i need to replace and is it easy for me to change myself.
Thanks again

debs626

do you have a video out on your laptop ? can you plug it into another screen ?

If so and you can see whats going on then the above peeps are right.

I can connect my Dell laptop to my tv via the svideo slot.