BLACK LAPTOP SCREEN -- Can be caused by loss of backlighting, but also can be caused by breakage of the interconnections from the mobo to the screen itself as well.

If you are going to try to fix it yourself, first step is to open 'er up and find out what the problem truly is before ordering any replacement parts.

I've seen (and repaired) just about every laptop screen problem there can be, the "luckiest" of which are caused by one broken connection that gets resoldered, to all out replacement of everything inside the top half of the lappy but the wifi antenna(s)...


--Mac