#Aspire 5100 motherboard replacement series
Inverter failure symptoms are very similar to backlight lamp failure symptoms and in most cases you cannot tell which one is causing the problem until you replace either the Aspire 5100 Series inverter board or the backlight lamp. When you restart the laptop, the screen works fine again. The laptop screen works fine for hours or even days, but sometimes it goes very dark as it mentioned above. The laptop works fine with an external monitor.ģ. You still can see a very dim image outline. Your laptop turns on but the screen remains dark all the time. The laptop works fine with an external monitor.Ģ. When you restart the laptop, the screen lights up and then goes dark again. You still can see an image but it is very dark, almost invisible and definitely not usable. When you turn on the laptop, the screen lights up for a short period of time and then goes dark. Usually Aspire 5100 Series inverters fail in one of the following ways:ġ. As a result, the image on the screen is bright. When the inverter board works properly, the backlight lamp gets power and the LCD screen lights up. The inverter board converts low voltage DC power (few volts) supplied by the motherboard to high voltage AC power (few hundred volts) needed for the backlight lamp. The Aspire 5100 Series lcd inverter board works as a power supply for the backlight lamp mounted inside the LCD screen. Open the screen panel you can see some typical looking inverter boards found in laptop computers.
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Laptop inverter boards (also know as LCD inverter, FL inverter, screen inverter, backlight inverter) come in different shapes and sizes.