on 3/09/2005, Tim Bell supposed :
> 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?

Had something similar, but mine didn't start, got repair report saying 
the backlight invertor had short circuit, but perhaps with you its only 
the inverter failing?
try lighting it with a lamp or something, perhaps you can see a very 
dark screen ... (then its the lamp or the inverter itself, else it's 
probably something else with the screen ...)
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