Well, I tried an experiment. I took a power board from a 280 screen that I have not seen darkeing corners with. I transplanted the board into a screen that has definitely shown the dark corners. THe result is no change. I still get darkening corners. This still seems to me like something is preventing the corner pixels from "relaxing" back into the ground (off) state. We need someome well versed in LCD technology to answer this one. Mad Dog