I know we have a lot of computer guys here so hopefully you guys can either answer my questions or know someone that can do the work: I've had a laptop since 2001, which was pretty high end when I bought it. I really only use it for office applications and internet. What happened is the light behind the LCD screen went out. Best buy told me they'd charge me $250 for it. For that much i'd rather spend a thousand and buy a new laptop as prices have come down a bit. When I look at the screen I can slightly see an outline of my desktop, but its dark so I believe its the light and not the lcd. Anyone here can fix that cheap and wanna make a few bucks or know a place that fixes computers cheap??
If it has anything to do with the LCD screen it isn't going to be cheap, especially with a model that is 4 years old. To find out the model check the bottom of the laptop, and at least give us the serial number. What you might be able to do is find a "parts" laptop of the same model on eBay, you can get those for under 50 bucks depending on the make and model. I wouldn't spend much more then that because for 200-300 bucks you can get a used laptop that is at least a year or two newer on eBay. Fixing LCD screens is quick and simple once you have the parts, it is finding the parts that is a pain/expensive. All parts on a laptop (minus the motherboard) take under 15 minutes to swap out if you know what you are doing.
Also, generally speaking for laptops there is no "light" behind the LCD that you can simply repair... the screen and backlight are all one manufactured piece, so to replace the light you have to swap out the screen too. I've never worked on a Fujitsu so this may be a bit different, but I've worked on hundreds (if not thousands) of Dells, HPs, Compaqs and IBMs and you have to replace the screen on all of them regardless of what the problem is with it.
if it's just the light, it may only cost 20 bux if you've got the heart for it. my ex had a dell laptop light go out on her. i've looked up some repair guides on the internet and it can either be the inverter (40 bux on ebay) which is pretty small pcb board or the cct (cold cathray tube) which looks like a small florecent tube and cost about 20 bux. i forgot the site i got the cct on but do a search on google. it takes a little guts cuz you have to deal with some delicate parts, but it only took me 20 minutes and it worked perfectly.
my mistake.. it's actually "Cold Cathode Flourescent Tube" or CCFT, it's been 2 years since i've done it
sounds like the backlight...cost about 50 bucks for the bulb...it's just a tedious job b/c of taking the laptop apart...check w/ Microcache, i know they do that there...
