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computer screen issue?
I have an older (6 years) Dell Laptop I haven't used in a couple of years. I fired it up today to locate a document which I believe only exists on that laptop. Everything loads up right, but the screen is so dim, I can make out the cursor and icons, ect....but can't read anything to be able to get to the doc. Thought I would just plug it into a desktop monitor and go from there, but all I get is a blank screen when I plug into a bigger monitor. Any suggestions before sending it off? I really just need the one doc off of it and it goes back into a closet.
Thanks. ps: I'm trying to find the doc for a fellow MB sucker, I mean owner; Last edited by John Doe; 11-20-2008 at 03:58 PM. |
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there is a way to increase the brightness.a buddy showed me on mine but i'll be damned if i can remember what he did.
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You to push the monitor button you your keyboard to fire up the desktop monitor. The reason for your screen going dim is the ballast or backlight which can be a DIY but in your case I recommend The Geek Squad
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Don't worry, I am proud of spending my time doing other things than bothering about computers, but what monitor button? I did find the instruction disk and am going to reboot and try the Fn brightness command. I had already dumped the c drive off this thing onto an external HD, but I think this doc is on the desktop. |
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I give credit where credit is due....
Found it Howi: there was a small crt/lcd above "F8". When I hit that, boom there it was.
Thanks. Again |
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Thank god some of us can multi task
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There are different levels of multi-tasking
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Laptop, whats that?
I got one of them fancy new IBM typewriters....
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I've got a Royal. At my beach house.
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Inverter board
99% its the Inverter Board
Cost is $25 replacement time is 10 min. go here for the part and go onto the Dell board for schematics. http://www.parts-people.com |
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Usually: Documents and Settings > [user] > Desktop User is your login name or all users, Default user, etc If you know the name of the document you can search the disk for it. Rob |
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Thanks guys. Issue was resolved yesterday. Threw the computer away.
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Remember back when the IBM Selectric was the cat's meow? If I'd have had a computer with Word on it when I was in school, I would have been in heaven.
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Having pledges was heaven, without tiring your fingers
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I was fortunate to have a friend who could type 90 words a minute. She typed most of my papers in college. She could type a 20 page paper while I drank a cup of coffee on my way to class.
By grad school I was doing my own typing on an old POS manual typewriter.
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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century OBK #55 1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles 2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles 2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles |
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