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Scubatrish | 13:17 Wed 04th Jul 2007 | Computers
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My dell inspirion laptop screen has suddenly gone black. I can barely see the desktop icons. I have tried rebooting and the brightness comes back but then screen goes dark again after about 10 secs. Any ideas???

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I can turn my Acer screen off by pressing FN and F6.

Have you pressed something similar?
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tried that - didn't work
i had prob like this
all i got was some writing on top of screen.
got dell in under garuntee.
i got new motherboard ,new ram and heat sync.

motherboard was faulty.dead the guy said
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its over 3 years old so past its warranty - I thought it might need a new backlight bulb.
Try pressing the FN Key TOGETHER with the key with a sign like the sun, (as a child would draw it ). This should sort it out.

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