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I always pull the battery before I work on any laptop or notebook. The last thing you need is for your Dell to power up while you're taking it apart. I'm taking apart this Dell Latitude for the sake of illustrating an example, but it's not something you normally want to undertake without first troubleshooting the screen failure. The first challenge for getting into the Dell and checking connections replacing the screen or backlight is to find the screws. Like all laptops I've seen lately, the Latitude has four screws hidden under rubber pads at the corners of the screen.

Some would-be home laptop repair techs give up because they can't get the rubber pads out. In some instances, as with this Dell (