Well, my VAIO has apparently seen too much use (it's almost two years old), and the cable between the base of the laptop and the LCD screen appears to have gone bad. I've been having trouble with it for a while, but wedging it at a certain angle always got it to keep working. :) Sony won't ship me the ribbon cable to install myself (hafta ship it to them), and from what I've been told it takes 3-4 weeks to get stuff back from them. Does anyone happen to know either a place where I can buy parts for these things, or a local repair shop that works on them? (Laptop's long out of warranty, so no worries about voiding anything..) -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500