Recent content by happyavocado

Thanks Jarotech! You have been a tremendous help! :)

Hey Jarotech! I'm back much sooner than expected. I did some digging and found a VGA-VGA cable and was able to connect the laptop to my monitor. The result was clear: for a few minutes I had twin displays. But when the display disappeared on the laptop, it was maintained on the monitor. So...

Thanks Jarotech! I was hoping it wasn't the backlight because that sounds like a much bigger deal than the inverter (and mostly hoping it was something I could solve by not having to buy anything! ;) ). But I agree the pink screen sounds very much like a hardware deal...I'm still flummoxed as to...

Hello, I am tinkering with an old laptop and it has a few issues. I was able to boot it up but I got a virus warning. Tried to run antivirus but the screen started going black. Upon further inspection, I have discovered that if I shine a light at the screen I can see (very dimly) that the OS is...