Tim
11-13-2003, 08:32 PM
I realize it may be too late to help, but I had a similar syndrome on my
zt1145. I diagnosed a bad inverter board. This board supplies power to the
screen, I think. It is a smallish little beast located inside the bottem of
the screen housing.
Our friends at HP wanted to replace the entire screen top for, now get this
.... $700!!!!!!!!!!!! Funny thing is that the little board is available on
their website for $28 plus shipping.
You can easily install it yourself.
Hope I am not too late!
Tim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chu-Chu" <marymary105@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp.hardware
Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 6:13 PM
Subject: HP ZT1000 series laptop LCD going dim
Sometimes when I open my HP laptop, the screen goes dim. I can see the desktop if I look closely. Sometimes if I close the lid halfway, then open it, it goes back to normal. Usually I just have to restart. Also sometimes when I restart and touch the keyboard to type, the screen goes dim again. It seems to be reacting to my touch. I turned off the screensaver and have all the power options set to "NEVER," but it still happens occasionally. Is my screen dying?
zt1145. I diagnosed a bad inverter board. This board supplies power to the
screen, I think. It is a smallish little beast located inside the bottem of
the screen housing.
Our friends at HP wanted to replace the entire screen top for, now get this
.... $700!!!!!!!!!!!! Funny thing is that the little board is available on
their website for $28 plus shipping.
You can easily install it yourself.
Hope I am not too late!
Tim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chu-Chu" <marymary105@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp.hardware
Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 6:13 PM
Subject: HP ZT1000 series laptop LCD going dim
Sometimes when I open my HP laptop, the screen goes dim. I can see the desktop if I look closely. Sometimes if I close the lid halfway, then open it, it goes back to normal. Usually I just have to restart. Also sometimes when I restart and touch the keyboard to type, the screen goes dim again. It seems to be reacting to my touch. I turned off the screensaver and have all the power options set to "NEVER," but it still happens occasionally. Is my screen dying?