I have an Acer Travelmate 5520. Last night while working the screen started to flash and then went totally blank. I powered down and back up again and the same thing happened. The laptop is running but the screen is black and on start up sounded like it was sizzling(as if you put water in a hot pan)but that stopped after a few minutes.
Most likely the inverter module for the lcd screen has failed. If you can hook up your laptop to an external monitor, you will be able to make sure that the rest of the laptop sill functions.
An inverter is a inexpensive part, $10-15 dollars, but requires that the lid be disassembled somewhat to install it
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