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by elohex

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My LCD is so dark i can't see a thing except if i use an external monitor. Its a HP Omnibook XE2 DC, it occured when i installed wrong sound drivers and kept booting to safe mode [win98se]. Should i update the BIOS? Or look for the correct LCD driver? I couldn't get the LCD driver[Omnibook XE2 monitor] when i downloaded the drivers from the site.

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by thechas

I suspect that the driver installation issue is simply a coincidence.
It is possible that a power saving mode was enabled that turned off the back-light lamp for the LCD.

You most likely have 1 of 2 possible hardware failures.

1. The back-light lamp has failed and needs to be replaced.

2. The power supply for the back-light lamp has failed and needs to be replaced.

Chas

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