Dropped my IBM R30 - screen very feint

Hello,

Thanks for the replies!

Repost -

My laptop took a hit when it fell out of my bag on the street. A true
test of IBM craftmanship it seems, I honestly thought it would have
survived since the case didn't even get a scratch.
Everything ok except that the screen is very very feint. It's not the
adapter an external monitor works fine.

The model is a R30 No. 2656-e2g. I have gone through the HMM
(ftp://ftp.pc.ibm.com/pub/pccbbs/mobiles/02r2913.pdf) as far as "1090
LCD Asesembly", and have reseated the inverter - nothing seems cracked
or damaged either, yet still see no obvious problems.

Should I be looking somewhere else?

Thanks again

Tino

(Tino) wrote in news:97618501.0306250400.7916e453
@posting.google.com:

> Hello,
>
> Thanks for the replies!
>
> Repost -
>
> My laptop took a hit when it fell out of my bag on the street. A true
> test of IBM craftmanship it seems, I honestly thought it would have
> survived since the case didn't even get a scratch.
> Everything ok except that the screen is very very feint. It's not the
> adapter an external monitor works fine.
>

Perhaps a cable in the display panel itself worked loose. I have a Hitachi
with 12.1" TFT, the panel has a long flat cable connecting panel's two
circuit boards together. One of the connectors for this cable is a bit
loose and the screen faints if I slap the laptop's lid hard with my hand.

Just a guess.

Olli Meckelburg