Display blacks out when panel is extended

My pbg4 screen turns black (no light) when the display panel is open about 80 degrees or further. Just started...like a short in a wire. Sound familiar? Any help on downloading instructions to remove display panel will be appreciated.

Start with the wiring harness coming out of the left hand side, because you probably dont need to disassemble the LCD to find a frayed or pinched wire. Since it happens when you move the hinge, I'm pretty sure thats your problem-- (intermittent blackness without motion could as easily be the bulb or the inverter).
The harness responsible for this has four wires: orange brown, red, yellow.
Where mine got pinched was underneath a black plastic block with a single screw, that pins it down to the lower chassis near my hinge.
I fixed my wire by snipping it cleanly, slipping on a tiny piece of heatshrink tubing, soldering it, and sealing it with the heatshrink tubing.
I have not come up with a more durable solution for opening and closing with the lid yet -- but hopefully that'll give you an idea of where to start.
I got this idea from another post, but it didnt go into much more detail about which wire he was talking about.

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