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On Saturday, June 9, 2007 at 4:16 pm, Jordan wrote:

>My boss was cleaning out the storage room yesterday and he brought me a laptop and 

>said if I could make it work I could have it. So, I figure why not? It's got Windows 

>2000 Professional, it's a Sony Vaio PCG-GRS100k. The problem is, you can see the 

>screen unless you lay it pretty much all the way back under a light. I've turned 

>up the brightness as far as possible and it's still pretty unreadable. I've hooked 

>up an external monitor to it, so I'm guessing it's not the video card? The only 
thing 

>I can figure is the backlight or inverter. I wouldn't mind replacing them, but I'm 

>not totally sure if that's the problem, or where I can even buy new ones. Any ideas? 

>Thanks.

>

>-Jordan 

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