Re: Dell E153FPB Back Light problem

Hi again,

Thanks for the advice. I will do that.

i was thinking about doing a reflow of the solders using a heat gun (using my infrared thermometer to gauge temperature of the PCB). I fixed an IBM laptop that way (the one I'm using to type this).

Best regards,

Eric

ps. Sorry about the picture and the 'great resistance' thing was not meant to be funny, I am not a native english speaker and things can get warped in translation. I meant infinite resistance.
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Re: Dell E153FPB Back Light problem

Hi all,

I just wanted to share my experience:

My father-in-law had a Dell 153FPB that 'died', i.e. had no backlight.
I saw it flash a bit when I plugged it in so I decided to google a bit to see if these things had a common point of failure (usually bad caps in my experience).

Fortunately, I read this forum and that pointed my attention to the PF751 fuse, not very obvious for an amateur like me I must confess.

I measured great resistance over the PF751 fuse, an indication of...