Display brightness turned down to Tecra 8100

Hello:

I bought a Toshiba Tecra 8100 used - after two months without problem the monitor suddenly turned down the
brightness - in the beginning the turn-down was little, now, it's quite often.

I tried already several things: first of all I thought it was because of the battery... but after the purchase of a new problem was still there. Sometimes after freezing
several times by closing or simply by pressing the gel
button, it works very well. So far, I can't find a source of
the problem (also changed the parameters of power... is not serious)... so I'm completely at the end of my nerves - in addition to this small, but very serious problem, I'm still very pleased with this end computer.

Hoping to find help in the forum.

Best regards, Bjoern

I too am in the same situation, but I just wanted to clarify the problem. The machine starts very well, but sometimes the backlight fails completely. It's pretty sporadic, although invariably reboot fixes the problem (temporarily). Is it a software or a hardware problem?

Thank you, David

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