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    kate58 Posts: 1, Reputation: 1
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    Aug 22, 2008, 07:13 PM
    Annoying screen flicker
    I have a gateway laptop and the screen flickers to black a lot now, especially when I'm turning the computer on. Sometimes it stays black until I keep moving the screen back and forth and the screen shows up. When it's black, I can see that the picture IS on the screen if I shine a really bright light on it.

    I had the whole screen/monitor replaced while the computer was still under warranty... that helped for a while and now it's just doing the same thing again. Is there anyway I can fix this without getting service on it??

    Thank you!
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    Aug 24, 2008, 05:45 AM
    Sounds as if you have a loose connection on your backlight. You could take it apart to look, I'm not sure if you can find gateway disassembly instructions online or not. It is a moderately difficult job however.
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    Aug 27, 2008, 06:04 PM
    It looks like the inverter or backlight is bad, I can help in fixing it.
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    Jun 1, 2009, 01:17 PM
    I have a gateway laptop that is a 17 inch screen and the same thing is happening. A temporary fix is to close the laptop and bang it on your lap then open it and doing this is a temorary fix but I emailed my geeksquad guy from best buy to see if he can fix it if he does I can email you with what to do as I am going to watch carefully. My email is [email protected] if you want to email me so I can get yours fixed too
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    Jun 23, 2009, 01:15 PM
    I have a GATEWAY MT3419 laptop. The LCD backlighting would go on and off and stay off. I finally fixed it by reconnecting the inverter board. (loose connection to LCD)
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