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Black Screen of Death

HardWareBoss

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The screen on my Compaq died last night. I bought this July of 05. For a backup of my Desktop. I have not used it much. But for the past 2 months+ of heavy use. Just web surfing and gaming. I'm not going to pay HP service center to fix this. So I will not be recomending Compaq to anyone. A laptop screen should last longer than mine did.
 
That really sucks. Are you sure it's the screen though? Have you tried hooking it up to an external monitor?