Have had my laptop for almost 2 years now. 

 

Yesterday, my screen started to flicker in brightness.  Dim-to-bright all across the screen.  I restarted my system and when it came back up, the entire left side of the screen was black and the right side had a picture. 

 

Shut down the system for the night and when I restarted it this morning, entire screen is black.

 

If I am in a lighted room, I can see the picture on the screen but is too dark to actually use. 

 

Wondering if there is anything that I can do to fix the problem.  Given the history with this unit, I would say not but heres to hoping.  After having my hard drive fry within 18 months of purchase and my DVD+R drive fail 2 months after that, it would not surpise me to see that another costly repair is in order.