The screen in ThinkPad T20 seems to have a yellow tint
I recently bought a ThinkPad T20 from eBay, and after a few fixes it works great. Unfortunately, the screen seems to have a yellow tint to it. I don’t know if that is the OS I am using (DSL) or not, but I was wondering if a yellow-tinted screen meant I should replace something like the backlight.
Does the screen have a yellow tint only after the operating system completely loads? If yes, then try to check the video settings. For example, on my Toshiba I go to: Control Panel – Display – Settings – Advanced. Here I can access the graphic properties and open color correction tab. I can change gamma, brightness and contrast. Also I can reset all back to factory defaults, if I use a restore defaults button. Most likely you interface is different, but it would be still the same idea. Check if you can set everything back to defaults.
If you see a yellow tint in BIOS, before the operating system starts, then it might be a hardware related issue. Hook up an external monitor and restart the laptop. When a ThinkPad sign appear on the screen, check if it has a yellow tint. If the ThinkPad sign has a yellow tint, then I think you might have a problem with the system board or the video card (I’m not sure if this model has onboard video or it’s a separate module). If you see the ThinkPad sign with a yellow tint only on the laptop LCD screen, then it might indicate a problem with the screen itself. Try it first and find out if it just a software related problem.
November 1st, 2006 at 4:06 am
My notebook’s screen has blue background color even then it should be black, for example at startup or in DOS command prompt window, so the colours of the screen are distorted. External monitor working absolutely OK, even then I replaced the LCD panel the problem persisted. What do you recommend to check?
November 1st, 2006 at 8:27 pm
Rustam,
You’ve asked the same question on laptoprepair101.com. I posted my suggestion there.
March 8th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
Hi I have an IBM thinkpad R51 and the left side of the screen is always red..It’s not everywhere on the screen just the one side and I didn’t do anything that would cause it to do this. I asked around and no one seems to know what went wrong.
March 12th, 2007 at 7:08 am
Hello there, when i startup my Toshiba Tecra M3 laptop, the black part startsup as pink … then when the Operating system starts, the background would be tinted with pink and all white backgrounds turn blue…could it be a backlight problem? best regards
March 15th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
Yasmine,
When you have a faulty backlight bulb, the screen might get pinkish tint very noticeable on a white background. But I’m not sure why in your case white background turn blue.
I think you might have a different problem. Did you test the laptop with an external monitor? The external video is absolutely normal?
July 20th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
I have a HP dv9010us Pavilion Laptop. The laptop’s display works great. I’ve always used an external LCD monitor- and about a month ago, the secondary monitor suddenly had a blue tint to the screen. The laptop’s display worked great. Eventually the 2nd LCD screen wouldn’t even display a picture. Assuming it burned out- I just got home with a brand new Samsung 22″ LCD monitor- plugged it in, same exact problem- blue tinted screen. Initially I thought it might be a bent pin in the cable or receptacle- but I tried brand new cables with no results. My laptop also has a ‘docking stand’ in which has an external monitor jack in that as well. I tried the docking stand’s monitor output, as well as the one directly on the laptop- both have the same exact results- blueish tint to the screen. This leads me to believe it’s NOT the monitors or the cables.
Do you have ANY ideas as to what this could be, and how to fix it? My drivers are completely up to date as well. Please help…
August 13th, 2008 at 6:55 am
I have an Acer laptop that started making a loud noise, near the air vents. I shut the computer down, thinking it had gotten too hot and needed to cool down. I restarted the computer an hour later and the noise returned, along with a yellow tint to the screen, which was not there before the shut down. I shut it down again. I tried again the next morning, but the same thing. I asked a few friends of mine, and one thinks it might be the hard drive failing. Another thinks it could be the screen going out. Any help would be appreciated.
October 19th, 2008 at 2:49 am
maybe the screen is broken