Recent content by Dragonsbloodmoon

It turns on for a few seconds both when I turn the power on and also when I switch it from external screen to internal screen and then shuts off. When it's on it looks fine so I don't understand how it could be a backlight.

The laptop was given to me because of this issue. It was barely used. It's a Gateway MD7822u with Windows Vista (yes I know it's kinda old now '07 to be exact, but has pretty good specs and I'd like to install Linux if I can get this fixed). I press the power key and the screen turns on like it...