LCD Backlight replacement

[casualsax3]

My backlight blew a few weeks ago, so today I decided to rip the LCD apart and replace it - having no idea how ridiculously complicated the monitor would be!

A few hours, and a few beers later, I somehow got it back together, and it lights again!

Problem is, I now have 3 lines of messed up pixels on the right side of the screen, on a black screen one vertical stripe is white, one is red, and the next is white.

Using another monitor works fine, so it's not the video card.

I'm hoping it's a cable issue. What else could it be though?

I can't believe I even got it back together working, so backlit with 3 bad lines is better than no backlight.

 

[casualsax3]

Tinkering with the cables, those three bad vertical lines will go all black, but slowly turn a solid color after I stop touching the cable.

 

[birdpup]

I have replaced a backlight on an HP Pavilion and it was not difficult. I am wondering if your LCD panel was damaged during the backlight replacement. Maybe you could open your monitor up again, disconnect and then reconnect the backlight wires. That may help. It sounds like permanent physical damage but I am not experienced enough to say for certain.

 

[casualsax3]

Well I took it apart to fix it, and now the screen is only white. I think it's dead.