Help with blank screen issue

[Tom_in_CA]

My explorer II just developed the following phenomenom:

It turns on fine, but there's utterly nothing on the screen. It's back-lit ok, for the first 10 seconds or whatever (normal timing fashion), but is just a blank screen, the whole time. Although I can't see anything on the screen, I can recognize that it's in the last programs I had been using, prior to this happening.

The back-light works, yet, just makes the screen go light and dark, yet with nothing there.

I tried re-booting (holding down the on-button for a long time when turning on). I tried batteries out for 10 minutes, etc.... To no avail. Any ideas ?

thanx !

 

[Tom_in_CA]

2nd time's a charm ?

 

[Great Republic]

Sounds like you have a bad LCD circuit.

 

[bleeohio]

Sounds like a loose solder on the circuit board, I doubt you're going to get it to work without some looky inside and testing. I don't think the backlight is tied into it in any way. Hope I'm wrong though. good luck

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Thanx guys for taking a venture at it. But oddly, this morning (after battery removed for ~4 days), I put the battery in yet again to test it, and NOW it works. I think some moisture had gotten in there, but ....... evaporated over time. Thanx guys!

 

[Great Republic]

Awesome!! Wish everything in life were that easy!! Lol! HH!!

 

[bleeohio]

Good deal, my next advice was to set it on the ground and kick it a couple times, ,,,glad I didn't get that in.

 

[sasquache]

Im glad it turned out ok for you

 

[Old Pirate]

Good to know if it crops up again with any of our machines.
Would think that if the machine was laying down with the speaker area more oriented to allow evaporation that would help to.