ah, the other bit of information I forgot to add was that I have Power Prefs installed and when I initially turned the 130 on after installing the new batteries, the backlight came on at switch on. I could turn the backlight off using the power switch at that time. I've messed around with the setting a bit but nothing gets the backlight working.
On Wednesday, February 06, 2008, at 03:05PM, "Matt Howe" <matthowe@comcast.net> wrote:
>I have a similar problem with my 2100. Sometimes when I hold down the power
>button to turn on the back light, it just turns off. I'm thinking that the
>power button may be a bit dirty. Anyway, I just loaded one of the back light
>control utilities and control the back light from there. You might try that
>on your 130.
>
>Matt (Ducky) Howe
>Owner of a MP2000U and an Emate
>mhowe@gfn.org (Newton)
>matthowe@comcast.net (Desktop)
>http://home.comcast.net/~mhowe41/
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>
>Stuart Mingay wrote
><snip>
>However, after using the backlight a few times, swicthing it on and off with
>the power switch, it now refuses to come on. The batteries are basically at
>full charge, the light just won't come on now. Any ideas what has caused
>this, and how I can fix it?
><snip>
>
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