Problem: SD800IS: LCD Screen flickers once then goes off

[MonolithTMA]

Good morning all,

I searched the forums and google and found nothing on this topic, so here I go. :)

I have a Canon SD800IS that I bought back in December of 2007. It has worked flawlessly and I love it. Yesterday I dropped it, but only about a foot onto a linoleum floor. I checked it and it worked fine. This morning I went for a walk, occasionally stopping to turn the camera on and take a picture. I took maybe 20 or 30 pics, then stopped to take another one. I turned the camera on, the LCD screen flickered for a second, I could see the Canon logo and then the normal screen, and then it went really, really dark, sometimes all the way off. I tried taking the battery out and letting it sit for a while, then I get the same behavior. If I try repeatedly I never even get the flicker, it just stays dark every time I turn it on. Everything else about the camera works fine.

Any ideas?

Any help would be much appreciated.

[jekostas]

It sounds like you knocked the connection cable loose to the LCD. Should be a relatively simple fix, but I'm not sure I'd be doing it at home (especially with a compact camera)

[MonolithTMA]

Hmmm...whatever was wrong seems to have reversed it's self. Thanks for the suggestion, jekostas. I hope it stays fixed, because I know these things aren't cheap to repair.