Tim.  There have been problems with the FL Inverters on several models of 
Toshiba laptops.  After several hundred repairs and or complaints by me/my 
company, they finally posted this:

http://209.167.114.38/support/ProductNotices/FLNotice.htm

Hope it helps.
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"Tim Bell" <1cdog@charter.net> wrote in message 
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> my screen went blank while playing a game. had to control-alt-delete to 
> get it to shut down. now when I start up I can hear it loading but nothing 
> on the screen. tried f8 to boot into safe mode - no luck. any suggestions 
> or am I sol?
>