Re: Equium A200 screen is dim

Hello,
I have a Toshiba Equium A200 Laptop with a dim screen. I have changed the inverter and the screen but the image is
still dim.
I came to the conclusion that the lid close switch was faulty but have stripped the laptop down and cannot for the life of me find it.
Either I am going blind or this laptop doesnt have one - which I thought unusual.
Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance.

May I ask you why you came to this conclusion?
Is your screen completely dark?
For me it makes no sense searching and replacing any lid close switches if the screen is dim
I think that its still an FL inverter issue. It could be also a display issue but Im not 100% sure
Possibly you have not installed the FL inverter correctly or maybe you used a wrong part
I think you should contact the notebook technician to find out whats going wrong with your notebook!

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>Also one a side note I cant seem to find the exact name of the Laptop in the system section of Control Panel other than Equum A200. On the download driver page there is NOT a A200 listed only A300 and A300D.
I guess you didnt look into the Archive the A200 is a little bit older therefore the drivers are placed in Archive!
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The notebook disassembly is not really easy its really tricky.
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Hi HiperGrover,
As PauPau wrote, the limited FSB is 533 MHz and that means the memory modules will run at this speed. Furthermore DDR2-667 modules can be used properly but they run only with lower speed.
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