HP ZT1000 series laptop LCD going dim

[Tim]

I realize it may be too late to help, but I had a similar syndrome on my
zt1145. I diagnosed a bad inverter board. This board supplies power to the
screen, I think. It is a smallish little beast located inside the bottem of
the screen housing.

Our friends at HP wanted to replace the entire screen top for, now get this
... $700!!!!!!!!!!!! Funny thing is that the little board is available on
their website for $28 plus shipping.

You can easily install it yourself.

Hope I am not too late!

Tim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chu-Chu" <marym...@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp.hardware
Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 6:13 PM
Subject: HP ZT1000 series laptop LCD going dim

> Sometimes when I open my HP laptop, the screen goes dim. I can see the
> desktop if I look closely. Sometimes if I close the lid halfway, then
> open it, it goes back to normal. Usually I just have to restart. Also
> sometimes when I restart and touch the keyboard to type, the screen goes
> dim again. It seems to be reacting to my touch. I turned off the
> screensaver and have all the power options set to "NEVER," but it still
> happens occasionally. Is my screen dying?