This Acer 5737z was given to me as a "nothing on the screen". Thankfully, there was an image and it was only the backlight which was missing.
I tested the inverter with a known good CCFL and it was fine, so the issue came from the screen.
After extracting the old CCFL from the display, I could get it running by messing around with the cable at the tube's ends. As it would be hard to try to fix this cable and the CCFL was already old, I prefered to replace it.
I could go with the whole screen itself, but since the panel was perfectly fine I thought I would try to fix it.
It's a bit of a pain to take apart and put everything back together correctly, but in the end the replacement was successful and everything is working fine again (except the keyboard with a bad "i" key, which I discovered later).
Sadly I forgot to take note of the display's model number, but anyway, here is the CCFL I ordered:
https://fr.aliexpress.com/item/2pcs-...712491622.html
"2pcs 352mmx2.0mm CCFL Backlight Lamps for 15.6 inch LCD Laptop Display with wire harness without welding" for $10.50, if ever the link gets broken. It wasn't that easy to find the right length for the tube, and with a connector on it.
One of the CCFL was broken when I received it, the other one was perfectly fine.
I tested the inverter with a known good CCFL and it was fine, so the issue came from the screen.
After extracting the old CCFL from the display, I could get it running by messing around with the cable at the tube's ends. As it would be hard to try to fix this cable and the CCFL was already old, I prefered to replace it.
I could go with the whole screen itself, but since the panel was perfectly fine I thought I would try to fix it.
It's a bit of a pain to take apart and put everything back together correctly, but in the end the replacement was successful and everything is working fine again (except the keyboard with a bad "i" key, which I discovered later).
Sadly I forgot to take note of the display's model number, but anyway, here is the CCFL I ordered:
https://fr.aliexpress.com/item/2pcs-...712491622.html
"2pcs 352mmx2.0mm CCFL Backlight Lamps for 15.6 inch LCD Laptop Display with wire harness without welding" for $10.50, if ever the link gets broken. It wasn't that easy to find the right length for the tube, and with a connector on it.
One of the CCFL was broken when I received it, the other one was perfectly fine.
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