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somunny:
Naturally, since I'm off for two weeks and I have a bunch of photos to go through, my laptop decided to crap out.

When I boot it up the screen is extremely dark.  I can just barely make  out what is on the screen.  It as if the light was turned off inside the display or something.  I'm not really sure how these things are put together.  :dunno

Any ideas? 

ChadTower:

Is it the LCD or the OS?  First guess from that description is that your LCD backlight is dead.

shardian:
I will second Chad. Probably something blew on the backlight inverter board.

AlanS17:
You could try the obvious first, and then look for a more obscure (though completely possible)  problem like hardware failure. Most laptops have function key combinations that control brightness and contrast. Have you tried messing around with those?

USSEnterprise:
Did you try an external monitor yet?

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