[NTLK] Death of an eMate :(

Woody Smith woodysmith at comcast.net
Thu Jan 7 15:25:19 EST 2010


Most common cause of blank screen after re assembly is having slider  
for contrast misaligned and so it is fully at one end or the other.   
Second could be that the display ribbon was not properly seated, I  
would check back of Display first since it is easy to access.

Woody


On Jan 7, 2010, at 1:47 PM, Thick Parasite wrote:

> I got into the hinge problem with my eMate.
> Took it apart, and fixed it without any trouble. The display cable was
> pinched, but not damaged.
> After putting the eMate back together, trouble started...
> It boots to a blank screen. Actually, I need to turn on backlight  
> light to
> see some sign of "life".
> Then, after leaving it on for a little while (about 40 minutes), it  
> went
> totally dead. No way to turn it on anymore.
>
> Any ideas on what I should do ?
> Thank you




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