How can you tell if the backlight or inverter is bad on an Inspiron
4150? The desktop starts to show up then fades away. Any Ideas?

It's very difficult to tell for sure, since a failure of either results
in loss of backlighting of the display. Usually, you either have to
substitute, or you just have to flip a coin and try one, and if that
doesn't fix it, try the other. Note that most shops don't replace
backlights, they tend to tell you to replace the entire panel.


Carol wrote:
> How can you tell if the backlight or inverter is bad on an Inspiron
> 4150? The desktop starts to show up then fades away. Any Ideas?
>