I'm working on a Compaq Presario 1210 laptop(old). The owner upgraded from Win95 to Win98. On the final reboot the lcd screen stayed blank and the system started. The owner insists that this is a Win98 installation issue but I feel that the lcd is dead. I plugged in an external crt monitor and that works fine with the laptop. I checked the display adaptor settings and they seemed to be ok. They are set to use either built in lcd or external monitor. I tried using the hot keys to switch modes. With the external monitor working, I hit the hot keys and the adaptor seemed to switch to the built in lcd but the screen remained blank. I don't know if there is a setting somewhere that I have missed or not. The battery is completely dead so I tried removing that to see if that was causing any problems but that did not make a difference. I didn't really figure it would but I figured it was worth a try. I would appreciate any assistance that you could give me with this. Thank You