Toshiba Lappy- No picture

[Biggun]

I have a friends Toshiba Satellite A100 Lappy here to have a look at it for her. Starts ok, but screen very feint.(so feint, that you cant use it) Tried the brightness settings, no good. So I plugged it in to an external monitor and everything works a treat. Any tricks to get it going again or is she now stuck with external monitor?

Thanx

[Philquad]

sounds likle a flux capasitor on the diode sensor

[Biggun]

Might have to send it to you Phill lol

[Philquad]

sure
when i find out what a flux capacitor is?
anyone?
i got 2 lappys here
1 with no display where we put screwdriver in the ram slot
1 where we ripped the m key off it today coz is in french.
how t-f do you put them keys back on lol.

[acejas]

ok theres a part within the lcd screen...cant find the link. Its a little bit finicky to fix and cost me $120 aus. If interested let me know and ill try and find details

phil - ya need new keyboard - just installed one last week after tring to put a single key back

[Biggun]

Thanks acejas, if you could find the details that would be great. If not i will just give her lappy back to her with an old crt monitor hehe

[Biggun]

anyone?

[acejas]

This is great to test if its your inverter or ccfl. (basically one of these will be faulty)

On mine it was the inverter

Hers a link for your model if you need inverter


HTH

[z80]

sure
when i find out what a flux capacitor is?
anyone?
i got 2 lappys here
1 with no display where we put screwdriver in the ram slot
1 where we ripped the m key off it today coz is in french.
how t-f do you put them keys back on lol.

I never throw away faulty keyboards from Toshies, because you can use the keys for repairs.

Post a pic of the underneath of the key and I can mail you one.
(I presume you broke the white bit?)

if not broken, then they clip back in like a see-saw motion.

[Philquad]

dont think we broke it
just cant work out how get sucker back on
has c2 like u shaped clips?
black
still need to change A-Q, S-Z,M
maybe fernby can do it for me.
wat about the shorted mobo on the compaq Z80
can you test\fix the mobo?

[z80]

dont think we broke it
just cant work out how get sucker back on
has c2 like u shaped clips?
black
still need to change A-Q, S-Z,M
maybe fernby can do it for me.
wat about the shorted mobo on the compaq Z80
can you test\fix the mobo?

carefully peel the next one and look at how it fits together, they had to be assembled in the first place.....
You need tiny japanese fingers to do it.

if you shorted a mobo on a laptop then its all over ...no logics, nothing these days unless there is a zero ohm surface mount fuse or some such obvious component failure....very,very hard to fix because the whole lot has to generally be reassembled to test.

extremely frustrating stuff.

[Aboulaly]

mate get a torch and shine on your monitor if you can see the screen then it's one out of two either inverter or the backlight bulb. which both are very easy to change.

[z80]

mate get a torch and shine on your monitor if you can see the screen then it's one out of two either inverter or the backlight bulb. which both are very easy to change.

inverter easy...yeah.


backlight bulb easy? Hmmmm...better rethink that one....

[Aboulaly]

I got to admit it's not as easy as the inverter, but it's not very hard too.
BTW who can recommend any good laptop parts supplier in Australia, oh and cheap too please LOL

[Philquad]

my 12 yr old fixed the keys,cool
fried mobo,umm yea, well lappy fires up but only a flicker on the screen for millionth of a second.
i think its fried z80.