Have you checked the latch switch that detects when the lid is closed for continuity?
Try unplugging it from the motherboard and attaching the leads to an ohm meter. It
sounds alot like the 2300 thinks the lid is closed.
That's all I can think of to do. I haven't messed with my display before.
--Mike
In a message dated Sun, 11 Mar 2001 10:31:20 PM Eastern Standard Time, "Mark A.
Kippert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So I put the screen back on Weird, and installed the hard drive from Tones
> since it had a clean system. When I boot up I get the same dark screen! What
> is going on here? At first I thought Tones had screwed up the screens
> somehow so I tested them on a Duo280c and they work (well, I couldn't try
>the 2300 screen since a 280c can't support it).
> One more thing. In a bright light, I can make out an image on the screens. I
> can see the desktop is there. It's as if the lamp is being kept from
> lighting up. Either the lamp is not getting power because I zapped something
> (although I can't believe I zapped two motherboards) or the screens are
> being prevented from lighting up as if the Duo is in the Dock (not sleeping
> as this would mean no image at all).
> I have zapped PRAM, reset power manager, let them sit for days without power
> or PRAM batteries and I've even swapped components.
>
> So why is the lamp not lighting? Is there a fuse on the motherboard for the
> lamps power and I zapped it. Do the dumb things think they're in a Dock?!?
>
> Is there any hope for our hero?!?!?! HELP!
>
>-makmac
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