Laptop monitor starts up with a "reddish" color then goes black

[Duane]

Hello and thanks for any advice. I have an HP Pavillion laptop (model ZV 5260
-- XP Pro). The problem is that my main monitor is going black after a few
minutes - but my external monitor is working fine. When I hibernate the
computer, I can log back on, but the screen looks a "reddish" color for about
20 seconds and then returns to a normal color. But then after a few minutes ,
my monitor will go COMPLETELY black (no backlight or anything) while my
external monitor is still working fine. I am running a NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go
64M 72.30

Any help is greatly appreciated as I am pretty strapped for $$ and I would
like some good direction before I get yanked by some repair shop etc..

Thanks again for any advice. Please feel free to e-mail me at
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Randem]

This is not the place for this kind of message but since you and I are
here... Check for a backlight lamp for you screen, this is most likely the
problem. Google it you can replace it yourself if you are handly and
confident about taking apart a laptop. Direction may be found online also.

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[M.1.5¾]

Why ask here? This is a pure hardware problem that has nothing to do
with XP.

Ask elsewhere

Well it is a hardware question that might have been better placed in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware. But our resident ****wit would have
complained about it being posted there as well so I wouldn't let it worry
you.