Monitor on Equium U400 is inverted

Started Equium U400 and screen is now inverted, believe it may be the inverter or backlight in the monitor.
Would appreciate any assistance in trying to, either find a solution to fix it or suggestion of a place to buy the correct part for my laptop.
Many thanks
Clark

hi thebear2006
as i am reading your posts correctly with the magnifier and changing colors to inverted everything is ok?
try this:
- deinstall grafics driver
- restart and install the newest one
- after this restart once more
if this not solves the issue maybe another application is causing this strange behaviour.
i dont think ist hardware related because you can change colors...
the inverter provides the power for the light tube, if it is broken you have no more backlight but you still can see a dark picture on the screen.
naybe you have to recover to get rid of that....
rarely it could be a broken wire....

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