Replacing laptop backlight

This guide provides some additional information to my previous post about accessing and replacing laptop backlight lamp.
Warning! The backlight lamp is very fragile and can be easily damaged. In order to replace the backlight lamp, you’ll have to disassemble the LCD screen. It’s not easy.

If you have no experience fixing laptops, do not open the screen!
The fourth step says:

Now you can test your newly put backlight. If in any case it doesn’t work, you could try replacing the inverter. Replacing the inverter was just a matter of unhooking a couple of cables.

If you have a problem with the backlight, I would definitely try replacing inverter first. This is much easier then replacing the backlight lamp and there is a good chance to fix the problem.