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This inspiron 5160 that is 3-4 years old during the middle of WOW just froze in about 1/4" vertical rows that were fuzzy white and other colors. So i turned off the laptop because it wasn't responding to any keyboard commands. The next day I started it up and the screen was black. Dark black without the backlight or anything. So I hooked it up to another screen and it worked fine. Is there any hope of fixing my laptop screen or do i need to play connected to the monitor of my other computer. P.S. It also has trouble holding a charge, I need to push it in further and also tilt it up for it to charge. Please help.

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I think its the end of the monitor. I dont think there is anything that you can fix in this.

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