Hey,

It sounds to me that you have a bad inverter board. It is a common problem with that select model that you have. That would be the first thing i would check. I would doubt that the LCD back...

Hey,

Well i know that they have generic docking stations that will use a USB port. I have never used one but i have seen them. Might want to check them out.

Raph

If that did not solve your problems of freezing it may be a intermittent piece of ram. I have had a problem like that before and it was bad RAM. Just a thought that might be useful.

Ok I see. Are you using windows xp home edition or professional edition? If you are using the home edition of XP you need to go in as the administrator in safemode and reset the password in the users...

Ahh... I have had this problem before. Hopefully you set up another account besides the Administrator account. Luckly I did. If you have more that one account on the machine you are going to want to...

ok....

You might have a bad power inverter board. This is the board that powers back light to the lcd.

Or....

This is what it sounds like.. Check your RAM. You might need to reseat it or...