Thinkpads Forum

Symptoms, for quite a while now there has been horizontal lines on my screen that would go away when I pushed on the upper right corner of the bezel. I suspect the chassis is in torsion due to my beloved assistant dropping my laptop several months ago. This morning after a couple of hours of use I closed the lid which puts it in standby. Upon opening the lid there was a faint imgae briefly where I attempted to adjust the brighness and then restart the machine. After it rebooted the the screen was dark. with the use of a bright flashlight I was able to hook up an external monitor and am now working from that.

From my reading here it seems it might be a bad cable or an inverter card and hopefully not a CCFL. What is the order of diagnosis and are there good video guides or manuals available on the net.

I bought this machine new in May of 06 and have developed a disproportionate attachment to it as I am not fond of the wide screen machines. Am I doomed to a T5xx or a T7xx or is there an economical alternative for a soldering pencil luddite?

Thanks in advance.

The most likely culprit for the screen darkness is the CCFL, then the inverter 2nd, and lastly the cable or a motherboard fuse.

The lines across the screen that you have observed in the past are from damaged line driver(s) in the LCD panel. The only fix for that, is to replace the panel. Now that the CCFL is likely burned out, seems like an excellent time to replace the panel anyway.

Ok, lead on. Its a flexview, where do I buy one from, Lenovo? What's the fru? how do I swap without melting it? manual and video would help...

Since you did not post a full TYPE number, here's two links to relevant Hardware Maintenance Manuals:

http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloa ... MIGR-62733 (T60p non-widescreen)
http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloa ... MIGR-66958 (T60p widescreen)

The HMM will give you the FRU and assist in the disassembly of the system. As far as videos are concerned, there's a limited number of them at the Support site:

http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/product ... MIGR-63959

Contact forum member cgsplcd about a replacement IPS panel.
He sold many of those here and everyone is happy.

rkawakami wrote:Since you did not post a full TYPE number, here's two links to relevant Hardware Maintenance Manuals:

http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloa ... MIGR-62733 (T60p non-widescreen)
http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloa ... MIGR-66958 (T60p widescreen)

The HMM will give you the FRU and assist in the disassembly of the system. As far as videos are concerned, there's a limited number of them at the Support site:

http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/product ... MIGR-63959

Thanks, it might be a little late but, its a 2007-93u