It shows the American trends bios screen for about 1 second and then the backlight turns off. The backlight only seems to go off sometime immediately after boot. The laptop backlight then comes on and will work find if I disconnect the external monitor. I've come to this conclusion because the only way to fix the issue when it happens is to plug an external monitor into the laptop, set it as the primary display, and then reboot. just so faint as to not be recognizable unless in the sun or a flash light is shined on the screen. I can see that the display is on by the way.
Sometimes either the laptop's hardware or the video card is just not turning the backlight on.
Sometimes the backlight won't turn on in the laptop.
