I have an old laptop of indiscriminate manufacture which has a dead LCD Screen.
This machine has a 12″ screen and somewhere around a 486 or early pentium
cpu. It is old but it belongs to a friend of mine who reported that there is actually
very little time on it because it went dead in about a year of very limited usage.
My friend then threw it in his closet where it remained until last month.
He never checked with the manufacturer about this problem and they are
now out of business.
My question is I see one of two problems. Either there is no power
to the screen or the video section on the motherboard has no output
to the screen. Does anyone have any ideas? What should I do
next. I can check the power with no problem but have little clue as
to how to check the video output.
