November 2009

Faulty Screens and Toshiba A200

Keeping with the theme of screen repairs this month it seems, but we had an interesting fault with a Toshiba A200 15.4" widescreen last week.  The symptoms were what you would typically expect from a faulty panel with the laptop powering and working perfectly on an external monitor via the 15-pin SVGA connection, but the laptop screen remaining black (note: not dim which would be a defective screen inverter).

After trying a new screen and finding the same fault, our technicians decided to swap out the screen cable, with the original screen and hey presto!  

Why would this happen?  Well it's actually quite a common .... Click here to read more