thinkpad r31 display

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flyt42 <flyt42@YAHOO-dot-COM.no-spam.invalid> wrote:
> First of all, this is a fantastic site.
> Like this subject says I have a thinkpad r31 with xp pro, recently my
> display will not work. I have tried it with the battery in and out.
> The power light comes on I can hear the fan and the hard drive start
> to work but the screen is blank no splash screen just plain black. I
> also connected an external monitor and that shows blank as well. The
> external monitor is working on another machine with no problems. My
> question to someone that knows or has experienced this before is it
> the MB or the led invertor causing this problem? If it is the led
> convertor than I can fix it if it is the MB then it's time for a new
> machine. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Change the CMOS (RTC) battery.

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Changed the cmos battery and still the same issue.

thanks anyways, Anymore suggestions?

thanks,

flyt42

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flyt42 <flyt42@YAHOO-dot-COM.no-spam.invalid> wrote:
> Changed the cmos battery and still the same issue.
>
> thanks anyways, Anymore suggestions?

When you had the external display connected, did you correctly select it
with Fn + F7?

Have you tried shining a light source on the laptop's display to see if
there's _anything" showing when the machine is booted?

Have you gone into EZSetup and tried to test the display?

http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=psg1M...

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