[geeks] Laptop LCD defect *rant*

[Bjorn Ramqvist]

Gavin Hubbard wrote:
> 
> Although it isn't ethical, I'm really tempted to disconnect the backlight
> power lead (which can be accessed by removing the keyboard) and declare it
> DOA. I'm not usually that nasty, but that unblinking red pixel is slowly
> driving me nuts in a disembodied HAL 2000 sort of way...

Fsck the ethical part, I'd do it. Just drag out that cable enough to
cause the backlight to go black, then you could always refer to your own
theory that "something must have happened during shipment".

/Bjorn