My HP Pavilion dv5t laptop... It's 4 years old and went through a lot during the last eight semesters. It is equipped with an Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 CPU, a dedicated nVidia 9200M display adapter and a gorgeous 1680x1050 display.
BUT the display assembly is rather frail and didn't withstand my everyday workload and traveling. After a year and a half of service the display to randomly shut itself down and went white. I was cheap when I order this laptop and got only a year of warranty service and I had to buy a new LCD display.
It's been almost 2.5 years since the time I changed the display and right in the end of the semester - BOOM - another time consuming display issue. This time it is was a very annoying blinking:
Sometimes it goes blank for 3-5 seconds and keeps me from doing my business. On different OSes, the problem was still there, so I came to the conclusion that it was again a hardware issue. I've googled around and found other people with my problem - it was the LCD cable *dramatic music playing*.
Where I live(Bulgaria), I was offered only cable with display attached to it :) at the price of ~200$. So I ordered it from eBay and it costs around 10$.
While I was waiting for the cable, I continued searching around and I found this blog post: http://erkinson.altervista.org/repair-lcd-inverter-flat/
It's an Italian blog an what I got from it was, that I should remove the the front bezel of the display, unplug the cable, move it around a bit, and plug it back in. And it worked. The display is up and running and I'm saving the new display cable for the dark day, when it starts blinking again.
Thanks, Italian hackers!
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