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Name: thewolfe
Date: February 6, 2006 at 08:24:19 Pacific
OS: Win 2000
CPU/Ram: ?
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Laptop screen problem

I have a friend who has a Toshiba Tecra 8100 running Win 2000.

His screen goes black but he can normally get it back by using the "LCD Display stretch" (function key + F5).

Now that "fix" isn't working.

Is the screen gone? Any ideas?



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Name: cappieb
Date: February 6, 2006 at 10:05:27 Pacific
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Do you not get any output to the screen at all? Can you get to BIOS or is it when windows starts to boot that screen goes black?


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Name: thewolfe
Date: February 9, 2006 at 19:10:25 Pacific
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I now have his laptop and noticed that I could see a faint Desktop so I used the Function + F5 key got a normal Desktop.

From what I understand it would either startup "dark" or go dark while using and the F5 key would bring it up again.

Don't understand why it changes.

I have turned it on and off a couple of times and all seems well.

I'll ck out drivers.


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Response Number 3
Name: thewolfe
Date: February 10, 2006 at 08:05:06 Pacific
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Someone mentioned the backlight my be "toast".


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