Canon PowerSHot A85

My Canon Powershot will not show anything but dark grey in the viewfinder or monitor. The saved pictures show up fine and it takes a picture (nothing but grey) ...any ideas? It's not the batteries and I reseated the card along with reformatting but no luck.

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I turn on my Kodak Z712 IS and the screen is dark - I don't see anything - just replaced battery - I can see review pictures but I can't see in screen what I want to take a picture of.

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Hello, please check this link: http://www.imaging-resource.com/badccds.html If you need more info please advice. Arpi

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