anyone good at Laptop / flat screens?

[Valis]

My Dell Inspiron screen needs either a new inverter, or backlight. The screen lights up for an average of 3 to 10 seconds sometimes, then goes completely dark. You can see what it is displaying if you hold a bright light against it. Sometimes I manage to get it to stay on for a few minutes.

What do you think? Lamp or inverter board?
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[justin4pack]

Most the time the LCD panel and the inverter come together. U can replace just the inverter but for the chance of it being the latter its not worth once u got it all back together. I have replaced quite a few and it sounds like the lamp to me. If u move the screen back and forth does it make any change to the length of the light staying on?

 

[Valis]

You mean it's a glitchy connector or so? The inverter board seems like an easy part to change. I took it apart and it was right there under the screen, I've repaired tons of laptops before, I used to work at a repair center in the 90s for computers and repaired a few MACs and PCs lately. So you don't think it's the inverter? :-/ I can get that for $3-4 USD on amazon.

I just want to replace the right component, or both.

Not that the laptop is anything special, today. But the screen is 1920x1200 of awesomeness for a number of things.

Every now and then if I click fn + F8 the screen lights up for a bit, but it's also not as bright as it should be. Guess that is the blacklight, huh?