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Repair and disassembly information for Microsoft's Surface Go 2 Windows Tablet, announced and released in May of 2020.

Screen Backlight not working...

Just as the title says. The literal day after the warranty period was over, the backlight stopped working.

Microsoft told me, on the phone and at store level. “You should've bought the extended warranty. Buy a new one, right over there!”

The screen still works, as does the touch screen. I hooked up an external monitor, nothing wrong in the BIOS and Windows. Just the backlight doesn't work.

So I ordered a replacement from ifixit. I swapped the screens, and same issue with a brand new one!

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2 days before 1year anniversary. ID light has been out for a few days. Went out awhile back and turning laptop off and restarting fixed it but not this time. 2nd surface I have owned and if warranty is not effective a MAC will be in my future.

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i have the same issue but mine doesnt even boot past the microsoft logo

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@coder0 the first Microsoft Logo? .. is this one light up normaly?

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no it doesnt

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So the first logo is without backlight and then it will not boot past this one.. bad .. most likely the device is fubar .. sorry pal

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Yeah, seems to be a common issue. The Backlight power ic is located somewhere on the mainboad (i've got no schematics, so not 100% sure where)
So, when this ic dies, even a brand new display will do nothing.

I've seen a Video on yt where some guy has replaced this ic for go1, sadly there's no further information on this one.

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Do you have the YT video for the Surface Go1?

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@migueldiaz27916 Sorry, but i did not bookmark this video and nowadays yt is flooded with AI Slop .. so no luck finding this again.

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@migueldiaz27916 you're a lucky guy, this will help perhaps.

https://youtu.be/PtkPITNtgVQ

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