Hardware Analysis Community Forums http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/4553/ 2009-01-08T01:43:36-05:00 http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/4553/ http://media.hardwareanalysis.com/halogo.gif text/html 2003-01-30T12:51:59-05:00 Caveman017 http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/4553/#20685 i had a friend with a NEC laptop. his screen was constantly tike that. it was his internal power supply. sorry but if it is out of warrenty ull have to get a new laptop<img src="http://media.hardwareanalysis.com/smilies/smile2.gif" width="14" height="14" border="0" alt=":(" title=":("> the PSU it on the motherboard text/html 2003-01-30T07:57:21-05:00 Andy Parker http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/4553/#20676 Dodgy power to the screen backlight.....<br /> <br /> <br /> Andy text/html 2003-01-30T04:23:06-05:00 Jole Delfrio http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/4553/#0 Hey, I have an NEC Versa SX that's a few years old. Every so often (at random apparently), when I'm starting it up, everything will appear normal and suddenly the screen will go dark. Images are still slightly visible, but it is as if the brightness has suddenly been drastically reduced. There is no way to increase the brightness. However, if I restart or boot up at different times, the problem will not occur. When it does happen, the dark screen happens at the same boot up point every time. Any clue what's the issue and what I'd need to do to fix it?