2004 Excursion Message Center

In my overhead console is the message center which shows the temp, gas milage, distance till empty etc. It all of a sudden stop working. One morning it was on for about 4 min. then went off again. I pulled down the console to have a look and jiggled some of the wires and it came on for a sec. than went off. Does this sound like the message center is bad, and is there anything I could do to see if its not bad. Thanks for any advice at all
scott