LCD Problems On Your Laptop

If you have a laptop whose screen is going dark, and not looking as bright as it once was. There are a few things that you can look at that can help.

There are three major parts of the computer screen of most laptops. An LCD Screen. A power inverter, and a backlight.

The LCD screen consists of all the pixels or points of light that display your images. The inverter takes the power from the computer and funnels it into the monitor. The backlight is a long bulb usually running along the bottom of the computer screen that illuminates the screen.

Now I know you're thinking if my computer is not as bright as it once was, it's probably the back light as it's what is shining the light on the back of the screen. But, usually it's not.

Most laptop LCD backlights are rated at around 30,000 hours. Which means you could leave the laptop on with the monitor on for three straight years before it would go bad.

Most LCD problems come from the inverter. In fact there are certain laptop models with drastically more defective inverters. In nine out of ten brightness issues, the inverter is the part that has gone bad. I've actually seen a few models that tend to burn out their inverters every six months or so. Making for a very expensive laptop to maintain.

If for some reason you have an issue with the LCD itself. That repair gets very, very expensive. You have to get the right size for the monitor and model. Although they can be pretty standard, Sharp makes a ton of the LCD monitors on most models of laptops.

As an estimate of parts, a backlight will run you around $10-30, an inverter is between $60-120, and a complete LCD replacement should be around $300. Each of those repairs take roughly about an hour to repair for a good tech, with the inverter being the easiest repair of them all.

Don't throw away your laptop just yet. It might be salvageable yet. LCD repairs are possible; just make sure that you get a good repair shop who has had experience.

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