Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!news.moat.net!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!novia!news-peer1!btnet-feed5!btnet!news.btopenworld.com!not-for-mail From: "Merlin" Newsgroups: japan.comp.toshiba Subject: Re: What I've try with this toshiba? Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 22:01:07 +0000 (UTC) Organization: BT Openworld Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: host86-136-72-181.range86-136.btcentralplus.com X-Trace: nwrdmz02.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com 1129154467 18655 86.136.72.181 (12 Oct 2005 22:01:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news-complaints@lists.btinternet.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 22:01:07 +0000 (UTC) X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2527 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org japan.comp.toshiba:382 "RREd" wrote in message news:m773f.25997$133.5315@tornado.fastwebnet.it... > Hi all, > I've got an old Toshiba Satellite 2800-100, but it seems not to start > more. > > It doesn't start with the button "On", and also doesn't start with the > button "Internet", that starts IE, and the pc if it is turned off. > > It starts only if I switch on, on the right, the "Modality control" > switch, that is the switch that turn on the digital cd reader, and the pc > if it is turned off. > > The problem is that if it starts, the monitor is always dark and I can see > only in trasparence the desktop view, in trasparence in the black video. > Then if i connect a external monitor, I can see on external monitor the > desktop. > > What kind of problem it has? Why this problem began? > > Thanks a lot. > > -- > E' un mondo difficile > > Rivist@ random generator: > http://www.rivistaonline.com/Rivista/ArticoliPrimoPiano.aspx?id=1679,102005,0 > Sounds as if your invertors is duff or connection come loose. Remove the screen surround and its the strip along the bottom with a few components on it. Easy to replace. Take care not to damage the screen. Expensive to replace.