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The screen inverter is what increases the voltage to light up the backlight, on your Dell it will be situated behind the screen bezel below your screen between the hinges. Be very careful with this if your laptop is powered on as it increases the voltage to a very high …

Hi everyone, i'm just wondering if anyone can help me determine if the fault i am faced with is the inverter or the backlamp. I have a friends HP NC4010 with a screen fault, on boot you can faintly see the splash screen & Windows boot, usually i would say …

1QL3Z51 is your service tag, Dell will not give you the master reset password unless you are the registered owner on Dell's database , if you have the previous owners details you can go to the change of ownership pages on the Dell site, once you are the registered owner …

[QUOTE=DJSILVERMAN;184794]the administrative password is on the bios chip itself, at least thats what i think because i cant even get into the bios setup. i took the laptop apart until i sat with only the mainboard in my hand, disconected the CMOS battery and put everything back together again hoping …

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Hi guys, having a spot of trouble trying to locate a disassembly manual for an Advent Modena (A15M) I've done the Googling but it just looks like Advent haven't made one. I need to remove a faulty SATA drive that seems to be fitted to the underside of the palmrest, …

Hi all, this is my first post as a new member & will be gratefull for any help. My problem is, i have a Dell D600 that is boot shy, when i power on it will display the power light for about 10 seconds then die, every now & then …

I have another Dell Latitude D600 with a random screen fault, every now & then the screen stays blank but windows loads ok, so i tried the obvious method & hooked it up to a TFT & it booted fine, so i removed it from the TFT & it booted …

Some laptops have a cmos setting to stretch screen, also if you haven`t already then install catalyst win2k & see if that installs graphics driver. Good luck.

Hi Wayne, have you tried connecting to an external monitor ?

Hi everyone, suburban here from Nr Manchester in the UK, just joined the forum & am hoping to learn a lot from here as i have recently started working with laptops after over 10 years of working with PCs, i have had a bit of success with some faulty units …