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 …<\/p>\n
Black screen.<\/p>\n
Blaaaaaaaack screen.<\/p>\n
Checked. Hey, look, I can just barely see the window being painted on the LCD of the notebook. It just isn’t backlit.<\/p>\n
Hmmmm. Yeah, heard that one before. Back in November<\/a>. Indeed, heard it just in January. And had it resolved in January<\/a>. In freakin’ January.<\/em><\/p>\n I’m working, obviously, thanks to a monitor I swiped from an unoccupied cubicle. The rest of the notebook works, just not the backlighting.<\/p>\n 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 <\/em>problem, to be perfectly honest. This particular A31 has been a regular pain. Rrg.<\/p>\n And I so do not want to have to shift over to an alternative. Really, truly, ooly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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. 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