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Portable Backlight flickering
Posted by: Macdrone on 2017-03-29 14:54:13 I started up my backlit, which of course the motherboard was recapped. Well I did not recap the inverter board as they were radials. The screen flickered until the mouse button was pressed. One thing I did not think should effect the other. But I quickly took the screen case apart, pulled the board, put 2 new fresh 10uf 25v radials I had in the holes put it back together and all better. Just putting it out there these radials fail also.
Posted by: Rajel on 2017-03-29 15:54:35 Oh yeah, the caps in the inverter board are typically electrolytic and can most definitely fail. Just because it's radial doesn't mean anything. I had the "sealed" surface-mount cans that people think are super stable leak out all over the LCD board in my 160. Horrible to clean up.
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