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Originally posted by smaglikn
I'm having the same no backlight problem on my 5 yr old Compaq. I discovered that I can get the backlight to work if I boot Windows into Safe Mode. I've tried different power schemes in Control Panel but no success on rebooting in Normal Mode. Looks like a Windows problem but nothing in Micosoft Knowledgebase. Any ideas?
I read this thread quite fast.. If I can remember correctly i had this problem on my presario 2100CA ... I had talked with HP and the way to fix this was to flash the bios..
It worked for me, although I don't remember how I did it exactly.
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