Walked into the office this morning. Fired up the PC. Tore off calendar pages while waiting for the boot sequence. Turned around to sign in …
Black screen.
Blaaaaaaaack screen.
Checked. Hey, look, I can just barely see the window being painted on the LCD of the notebook. It just isn’t backlit.
Hmmmm. Yeah, heard that one before. Back in November. Indeed, heard it just in January. And had it resolved in January. In freakin’ January.
I’m working, obviously, thanks to a monitor I swiped from an unoccupied cubicle. The rest of the notebook works, just not the backlighting.
I am not, I do not think, rough on my notebook. It does get transported every day in my briefcase, which rides in the trunk of my car in its padded sleeve. If the way I’m treating the machine leads to this problem, I do not think it is my problem, to be perfectly honest. This particular A31 has been a regular pain. Rrg.
And I so do not want to have to shift over to an alternative. Really, truly, ooly.
Maybe you need one of the armored notebooks that we use at the firehosue on the firetrucks. You could drive over one of those puppies and it would still function (at least it looks that way, we haven’t tested it yet!!!).
I’m worried about when the backlighting dies on my Clie. Given that Sony is no longer making them for the US, and the nextgen Palm PDA’s don’t appeal to me (I especially don’t need a cellphone/PDA combo!), it’s going to be annoying without the backlighting…it just doesn’t have the contrast that pre-backlit models had to work around the lack of a light.
Good luck with that notebook!