Re: [Thinkpad] 600E - Inverter card fixed

Sure, just get the 600E hardware maintenance manual:
http://www-3.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=LWIK-3SYPX2
Skip stright to page 89 if you have the 13.3 inch
screen like me.
Open the laptop as wide as it will go... about 190
degrees.
Then take out the four screws on the sides of the lid
and the two at the bottom corners of the screen.
Put your thumbs where those last two screws were, and
slide the cover down. There are five little plastic
latches near the top. Just convince them to let go
and you can lift the cover off.
Now turn to page 92... grasp the two hooks and move
them down and out.
Now if you close the lid the screen will drop out.
Careful.. all the wires and cables are still connected
and they are delicate.
At this point you can disconnect the screen and
replace or repair it (the lamp is inside).

Good luck.

Gus

--- Bryan Daum <bryandaum@comcast.net> wrote:
> Hello Angus,
>
>
> Congrads on the repair! Would you tell me just how
> you took the screen
> cover off? Is this the same operation that would
> access the back light?
> I'm noticing that my screen on this 600X is getting
> darker than it was and I
> see a bulb replacement in the near future...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bryan
> Portland, Oregon
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Angus Graham" <agraham_sms@yahoo.ca>
> To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 11:43 AM
> Subject: [Thinkpad] 600E - Inverter card fixed
>
>
> > I thought I would post this in case other people
> with
> > 600E screen problems find it useful.
> >
> > The symptom was that the screen backlight would
> turn
> > off constantly. I found that pressing on the base
> of
> > screen would tend to turn it back on for a short
> time.
> > Sometimes I would be literally typing one handed
> > while I pressed on the screen base. Very
> annoying!
> >
> > I took the screen cover off (note that the IBM
> service
> > guide indicates you have to disasemble the whole
> case
> > to do that, but I found that's not true). I
> > disconnected the inverter card. There is a
> semi-rigid
> > plastic sticker that sourrounds the card. The
> heat
> > had caused it to warp and pull away from the
> > electronics, and it tore off a resistor as it did
> so.
> > When I pressed on that spot with my finger, I was
> > actually pushing the resistor down onto the board
> and
> > making the connection! So I pulled off the
> sticker,
> > soldered the resister back on, put it back
> together,
> > and hurrah! It's been going for an hour or so,
> and no
> > black-screen-of-death.
> >
> > Cheers all,
> >
> > Angus Graham
> >
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