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Thanks to excellent instruction offered here: Reboot Daily: Dell Latitude D800 Dead Display, I was able to repair a dim display in Ashley’s laptop. She will be pleased to get away from the tether of the desktop monitor I was using to solving the problem temporarilly.

I must say that I was not impressed by the number of complaints I found about the same problem with Dell Laptop displays. I hope the newer Dells do not suffer from this problem.