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I've got a dell inspiron 2600 that i've had for about 3 and half years now. Yesterday, i was using it and all of a sudden the screen went black. I thought it had just shut down completely, but when I looked closer, i could still see stuff and do stuff so it was just the backlight that had turned off. I rebooted the computer and after about 5 minutes it did it again. Then I rebooted in safe mode and after about 5 minutes, it did it again. It's been doing the same thing no matter what I try.

After doing some searching, I couldn't find any similar problems, only problems where the backlight never turned back on. So, any ideas?

it's running winXP with SP2 and all available updates. i've already tried changing all of the power settings too. It does it when plugged into the wall and when only using the battery.

thanks in advance

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