>From: Mark Kral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Mine is not a lot brighter at the bottom, or anywhere else for that matter.
>It is uniformly bright throughout the display.
Depending on the color of the background, it looks fairly uniform.
But certain colors do allow you to see that it's slightly darker at
the top. Much better after a ColorSync calibration, too.
>As far as dim goes, when you adjust the dimmer button under the screen, on
>the lowest setting my 2400 goes completely black. On the next highest
>setting it goes to bright enough that this is the setting that I always use.
That's exactly what happens on mine.
>I have no idea why yours is brighter on the bottom, but I'd be a little
>worried about that.
Indeed. Anyone know how the backlights in these things work, and how
much it costs to get them repaired?
>From: Bill Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Kiran, it has problems. The screen should be uniformly bright from top to
>bottom and the dimmest setting is pretty dim just before it goes off at the
>lowest setting.
On mine, the dimmest setting is actually bright enough to use. It
certainly isn't anywhere near dim. Is there a way to reset it?
>However, my screen occasionally "flashes" when on the battery only
>at full conservation and I don't know why or how common this is.
>-Bill
I haven't seen that much today. A friend suggested a loose wire in
the connection from the machine to the LCD.
>From: Tom Ethen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>I wouldn't purchase a computer that does what you are talking about
>unless I got it real cheap and already knew the approximate cost of
>repairing the screen.
Well, the machine is $350 or so without a battery or power adapter,
and with only 16M of RAM. So it would end up being abut $750 when
it's all added up.
>From: "jpm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>One of the causes for backlight flickering is a fraying AC wire, which is
>fairly common. If it's on battery only then I don't know. If it's flashing
>brighly intermittently , might be just a loose display connector.
It actually flashes very brightly, and very briefly, almost like a
flashbulb. If I'm not looking at it, and it flashes, it certainly
catches my attention.
>If you're considering buying this one I'd see if the seller is agreeable to
>having a tech open it up to check the display connector.
Hmm. I'm probably going to take it apart with a friend anyway; we
have to try to reconnect the internal speaker to see if it works.
(Sound out works fine, but I like the startup chime and I do use
Talking Alerts.) I wonder, could a loose connector cause both the
problems with uneven lighting and with the fact that the brightness
goes from bright to slightly less bright and then jumps abruptly to
off? I have no idea how LCDs work.
Thanks.
~ Kiran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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