Re: Replacing LCD CCFL backlight

Seems like I warned against replacing this yourself; however it was probably worth the chance of fixing it. It looks like some of the LCD contacts are no longer making contact.

After I successfully fixed my wifes Dell 700m backlight (but cracked the screen), I ended up buying a complete panel on ebay. The cost of attempting to fix the backlight was about $25 plus a fair amount of time. The cost of a new LCD panel was $149 plus shipping. It only took 10 minutes to replace it and most of that time was spent looking for a screw I dropped.

Would I attempt to replace a CCFL again? Probably.

CV


NoSp wrote:
Here's a photo of what my screen looks like after I replaced its CCFL backlight tube. Obviously, something's gone wrong:
http://img369.imageshack.us/img369/962/lcdlinesxe1.jpg

According to this page (http://www.moniserv.com/doc/panelrepair.html) it seems like the problem is with the TAB and/or TCP of the display, and it can be fixed (although at another page of theirs it says that vertical or horizontal lines can't be fixed: http://www.moniserv.com/doc/laptopscreen.html)

What kind of problem does it look like, and is it likely that it can be fixed?
I have no idea how I got this problem in the first place as I was very careful when disassembling/reassembling the LCD panel.
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