Comments on: I have an issue with the LCD, 1/5th (right side) of the screen is completely white

By: Dan Stevens

Dan Stevens — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:21:05 +0000

@Carl

Came across this post and you described the problem I am having perfectly (display compressed to left and mirroring of taskbar at bottom) was wondering if you ever found a good solution.

By: John V

John V — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:21:48 +0000

I own a hp pavilion dv1520us: the LCD screen has been progressively going cloudy on the right side of the monitor. Of course this started to occur after the warranty and it started small and now it’s almost halfway across the screen. I’ve taken very good care of my laptop and I can’t seem to find the issue. Any suggestions???

…Thanks

By: Max Pelletier

Max Pelletier — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:55:31 +0000

here is a screen shot that better explains it:
(its is blurry yes, but the main idea is understandable)

By: Max Pelletier

Max Pelletier — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:39:12 +0000

I do have a similar problem. I have a Toshiba Satellite a70 with a 16:9 lcd screen.

Last night, when I came home with my laptop in his shouldercase, i accidentally dropped it a bit to hard. the case hit the ground from a height of about 1 foot. (which in my opinion shouldn’t be to bad considering the protective stuffing inside) Today, when I plugged my laptop, me screen is having this issue: there is a 1/5 right part of the screen not active, with a small 1/2inch zone (on the left of the 1/5 right zone)mirroring the last pixels shown, and same on the bottom 32 pixels of the screen in the active left 4/5 section.

In the display property, it no longer display the resolution of 1280×800, but shows 1280×768. also, my desktop is bigger than the shown screen, as i can scroll left and right to see the missing part. if i set to 800×600, i get no auto-strech, and at 1024×768, i can’t scroll my desktop anymore, but all is shown in the 4/5 upper left part of the screen(ie the 1024×768 first top left section of the screen)

I giggled with the screen connector, and there is no difference. I also flexed the screen top corners to no results. the problem appears at boot, (from Bios to windows). It’s as if my laptop didn’t recognise his 16:9 wide-screen anymore, and used only 1024×768 instead.

I tried removing my ram expantion, no difference. and playing a game running at 1280×800. The game crashed on startup.

Any clues?
Ram? LCD? HELP!

By: dan

dan — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:27:39 +0000

Hi there,
I have a Toshiba TE2100 that I formatted in order to clean up the hard disk and I reinstalled windows xp home edition. That was all good until I downloaded service pack 2. Thereafter, the start up screen is all good until it gets to the desktop screen which then does not stretch to cover the entire screen. The right side of the display has a black vertical strip about 1 inch thick but everything else (toolbar, taskbar etc) seem to be in the right place and in proportion, only shifted over to the left so that what’s displayed is not covering the entire lcd screen (1 inch missing from right hand side).

Any help would be much appreciated, everything is usable but it bugs that my laptop screen is not fully used.

Thanks,
Dan

By: Laptop Freak

Laptop Freak — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 02:27:46 +0000

Joe,

When I am using the computer the screen will go off. (I can see very faintly what is on the screen). If I push F5 key it comes back on. It may stay on for a 5 secs. or 5 mins. but it shuts off again

It could be a problem with the screen inverter – the board that provides power for the backlight lamp. The inverter board is located inside the display assembly below the LCD screen.
You’ll find some instructions for Toshiba laptops here: http://www.irisvista.com/

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:37:26 +0000

Thanks for your service! I have a Toshiba Satelite 1805 S254. When I am using the computer the screen will go off. (I can see very faintly what is on the screen). If I push F5 key it comes back on. It may stay on for a 5 secs. or 5 mins. but it shuts off again. I went into the power saving settings and adjusted to “NEVER SHUT MONITOR OFF”. This did nothing. A day later I could be using it and not have a single problem. At home I can hook it up to the TV but I can’t take it to work with me when it is having this problem. Any ideas? Thanks so much!!

By: Laptop Freak

Laptop Freak — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 01:52:10 +0000

Frank,
If the backlight works fine, it’s not a screen inverter (LF inverter) problem. You’ve replaced everything inside the display assembly but the laptop still experiencing the same problem so there must be something wrong with the video card. Sorry, I don’t work with Sony laptops and don’t know if this model has a video card integrated into the system board (not replaceable) or the video card is a discrete module.

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 07:09:18 +0000

Hi, I have a LCD problem with my sony vaio pcg-k45 laptop. When i power it on i only get a white screen.

I’ve been reading some of the previous answered questions on similar situations. I know that the laptop works because when i hook up an external monitor to the laptop i can see everything. First i thought that it could be the screen inverter, lcd harness cable or the lcd. i was able to get a good deal on all three parts on ebay so first i tried the screen inverter and the same problem resulted, then i tried the lcd and same problem, finally i changed the harness and still the same problem. After reading some of the comments i checked the harness’s pins to see if they were damaged or bent but they look fine. The backlight works on both LCDs.

Could it be the video card and is it replaceable? and can you please tell me what a FL inverter is and could that be the problem? Thanks.

By: Laptop Freak

Laptop Freak — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 07:45:56 +0000

Jeff,
I think in your case it’s a bad LCD screen.