Hello everyone,
A couple of weeks ago I accidentally stepped on my M6811. What followed was a loud *CRACK* and me looking like this:
. I had put so much pressure on the back of the panel that the LCD had a huge ink blotch in the top right corner. But to my surprise the display still worked and the back light was on. I have been using it as a server ever since, but two weeks ago I decided that I wanted my trustful portable worstation back. 
A week ago then I ordered a replacement LCD panel off eBay and it came in the mail yesterday. I set aside some time to do the eye transplant and had it almost finished when I decided to boot it up before I assemble everything back together. To my utter disappointment, the LCD back light on the new panel didn't come on. I checked every cable and have completely assembled the laptop with the new panel just to make sure that there wasn't a contact that was blocking the back light from coming on. No such luck.
I can see stuff happening on the screen, there just isn't any light to properly see the images... 
I put the old, cracked panel back in and to make matters worse its back light isn't coming on either but as before I can still see stuff happening on the screen but there's no light. So now I'm completely floored as to what I could have screwed up. Before anybody suggests to use FN+F8 to brighten the screen, let me assure you that there's no light being emitted from my LCD panels at all.
Has anybody ever been through this and know what I could have destroyed in the process?
Did I fry the inverter? Is there a hidden contact that is closed that I could be blocking?
I'm at the end of my wits.
A couple of weeks ago I accidentally stepped on my M6811. What followed was a loud *CRACK* and me looking like this:
. I had put so much pressure on the back of the panel that the LCD had a huge ink blotch in the top right corner. But to my surprise the display still worked and the back light was on. I have been using it as a server ever since, but two weeks ago I decided that I wanted my trustful portable worstation back. A week ago then I ordered a replacement LCD panel off eBay and it came in the mail yesterday. I set aside some time to do the eye transplant and had it almost finished when I decided to boot it up before I assemble everything back together. To my utter disappointment, the LCD back light on the new panel didn't come on. I checked every cable and have completely assembled the laptop with the new panel just to make sure that there wasn't a contact that was blocking the back light from coming on. No such luck.
I can see stuff happening on the screen, there just isn't any light to properly see the images... I put the old, cracked panel back in and to make matters worse its back light isn't coming on either but as before I can still see stuff happening on the screen but there's no light. So now I'm completely floored as to what I could have screwed up. Before anybody suggests to use FN+F8 to brighten the screen, let me assure you that there's no light being emitted from my LCD panels at all.
Has anybody ever been through this and know what I could have destroyed in the process?
Did I fry the inverter? Is there a hidden contact that is closed that I could be blocking?I'm at the end of my wits.
