Toshiba Satellite A205

I have all power settings set to where the monitor should never turn off under any circumstances, yet it still think its closed. The backlight will shut off randomly.

At first, I thought it was the inverter, but upon opening it, I found a little magnet that controls the backlight. I kept messing with it, and after a while I can get it to work, and I opened up the area in which the magnet contacts to clear out any debris which maybe blocking it, but it still turns off the backlight randomly.

Actually, I can't seem to find any sort of device that connects to the magnet. The magnet's position is above the lcd in the center. If the back light is off, I can continuously run the magnet back and forth across the area in which is contacts when its closed to get the backlight to stay on.

As of now, I have the magnet completely out of the laptop and is sitting on my touch pad for future issues. Any ideas on how to fix it?

Hmm, now I used to have this problem with one of my old laptops...
But I cannot remember what was wrong with it

Have you made sure that the leed connecting your screen to the mother board is correctly inserted, and that it is not being traped at all?

I will rattle my brains, and see if I can remember exactaly what it was I don to fix this problem.


Jam

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