My LCD screen has an issue. The image on the screen is garbled and flickers in some areas.
LCD Screen has a bad connection. The screen itself I know is fine, I can pull on the top left of the screen and everything looks like it’s supposed to. But, when I release the pressure the image becomes garbled and flickers in some areas. I’ve read that sometimes the actual video cable can get loose? If so, I can’t seem to figure out how to get at the inside of the PC to investigate. Do you have any kind of walkthrough or illustrations that might help for this issue?
I’ll run the specs.
IBM Thinkpad A22m 2628 TTU
1Ghz PIII processor, 256MB RAM Rage 3D Mobility
Windows XP Pro SP2
I don’t want to frustrate you, but I think that you might have an issue with the screen itself. Basing on my experience, when you can get a normal image by twisting the screen, then most likely the screen is bad and should be replaced. I do not exclude possibility of a loose connection, so reseating the cable would be a good attempt to fix the problem. Use Lenovo website to download a hardware maintenance manual for Thinkpad A22m. The LCD disassembly would be discussed on the page 99. You can also take a look at my disassembly guides I’ve created for Toshiba laptops. Find a guide about taking apart a laptop display assembly to get a better idea about LCD mask removal.
You can find a cheap LCD replacement here.
August 26th, 2006 at 7:34 pm
Hello. I have been researching why this Satellite P25 LAPTOP LCD will sometimes flicker or sometimes just darken altoghether. I am looking at if for a friend. Well, I connected an external monitor and no problem. Then , as I moved the laptop around, I noticed that it would sometimes work fine. I kinda pushed different sections of the CPU and yes, pushing down on an area right next to the hybernating button, the monitor would work fine. So when it flickers or when it goes completely dark, all I do is press down, sometimes hard, and it will work. However, I know this is no way to have a laptop. Would you agree with me that there is a loose connection? And should I go ahead and try to check the wires. I am a pretty experienced computer user and have opened up other computers, but never a laptop. Also, it’s not mine. I really want to though, cause I am just so curious. If my friend doesn’t have waranty I’m going to suggest I fix it for her. What do you think? Thanks. art
August 26th, 2006 at 8:28 pm
Art,
A flickering screen and intermittent backlight problems are usually caused by a failing FL inverter board. When the FL inverter fails, you still can see the image on the screen but it’s very dim. Sometimes, you can get the backlight back if you tap a few times on the lid close switch. I think that when you press on the area close to the lid close switch, you actually press on the switch itself. Here’s my question. When the backlight goes off, can you get it back on by genteelly tapping on the lid close switch? Or it’s necessary to press on the area around the lid close switch?
If you can get the backlight by tapping on the lid close switch, then most likely you have a bad FL inverter board and you can fix the problem if you replace it. Here’s my guide for taking apart Toshiba Satellite P25 display assembly (www.irisvista.com). The inverter shown on the step 8.
October 20th, 2006 at 11:59 am
I have a Toshiba laptop. About a week ago, the image display on the monitor suddenly became blurry, to the point that it’s incredibly difficult to make out what I’m viewing looking at. It’s the same whether I’m looking at a web page or a document. I have a photo of my daughter’s face set as the background. The image seems almost like its melting–I can see the general outline of her face, but all the colors that compose the image have almost become watery; like I said, as if they’re melting away.
October 20th, 2006 at 9:46 pm
Charles,
Let’s try to figure out if it’s a software issue, or you actually have failing hardware.
1. When you start up the laptop, the first image that appears on the screen is the Toshiba logo. The logo appears to be normal or it’s blurry too? If it’s blurry, then it’s not a software issue.
2. Hook up an external monitor and start up the laptop. How about the video output on the external screen? Is it blurry too? If both screens display blurry video, then you problem could be related to a failing video card OR a corrupted video driver. If the video on the external screen displays normally but the video on the internal screen is blurry, then most likely the LCD screen itself is bad or you have a failed video cable.
3. Restart the laptop and press F8 as soon as a red Toshiba logo appears on the screen. Select Safe Mode from the advanced options menu and press enter. The laptop will boot into the safe mode and only a basic VGA drive will be loaded in this mode. If you have normal video when the laptop is in the safe mode, then most likely your video driver is corrupted. Reinstall the video drive and see if the problem is fixed.
Before we go any further try all three steps I mentioned above and let me know how it goes.
October 22nd, 2006 at 12:52 pm
I have a Dell Inspiron 9300. The bottom 1/3rd of my screen is garbled. When I put pressure in the middle of the screen on the left side, I get a clear picture.
For about a month, I was able to put pressure on the left side and then let go to get a clear picture for a long period of time. Now it will not stick at all.
I believe the issue is just with some contacts in there or something, which I would hope is fixable, but I am unable to open the LCD to get a look.
Here is the screen as I see it:
http://s7.photobucket.com/albums/y290/Shhhhhhhh/nofinger.jpg
And here when I squeeze the left middle side:
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y290/Shhhhhhhh/finger.jpg
October 23rd, 2006 at 7:29 pm
Reuben,
Here are instructions for taking apart Dell Inspiron 9300, it will should help you to open up the display. I would try resetting the video cable first. It’s connected to the back of the LCD screen. Make sure the video cable is seated all the way down into the connector.
October 30th, 2006 at 3:30 am
Hello! i have sony vaio PCG-V505BP, just a month ago its Display started flickering. And when I restart my laptop for couple of times, it becomes normal as it was a month ago. Couple of weeks back it was taking one restart (restarting laptop) to fix the flickering problem but now gradually it is taking an increasing rate of restart attempts, like now its taking almost 4-7 restarting attempts, plus its flickering line are also becoming larger and whiter. And also when my laptop becomes normal after couple of restarts, i can see a permanant hair like very small horizontal flickering line(not dead pixels line) at the conrner of screen. And yeah i have checked my machine with extarnal LCD display, it displayed normal. Please help me! ill be greatly thankful to you!
October 30th, 2006 at 10:08 am
Hi, I have an IBM T30 notebook. My problem is with the screen, I think there is a loose connection somewhere because my screen rarely turns on anymore eventhough i know the laptop itself is on (kinda similar to Reuben’s problem with the screen except mine is worst). When I move the laptop/screen a certain way i sometimes can get the screen to turn on but the screen will be corrupted and freeze if i even move the laptop slightly. The problem keeps getting worst because in the beginning I can turn the screen on like 40% of the time by moving, now it’s down to like 5%!. Is there a way for me to fix this problem, take the screen apart and how? or should i just start saving for a new laptop now?
October 31st, 2006 at 1:09 pm
Sohaib Mansoor,
So it’s not related to the motherboard/video card failure and it doesn’t look like a software issue either.
Did you notice if the LCD flickers when you move the display? Can you see any pattern?
From the description you provided I would assume that it could be a loose video cable, a bad video cable or a bad LCD screen. I would try reseating the video cable first (on the motherboard and on the back of the LCD screen). If it doesn’t help, I would replace the video cable and if you still experience the same problem, probably the LCD would be next. Sorry, I cannot help you with disassembly because I don’t work with Sony laptops.
October 31st, 2006 at 2:32 pm
Tiffany,
Here you’ll find a link to IBM Thinkpad T30 notebook maintenance manual. This manual has disassembly instructions.
Test the laptop with an external screen. What about the external video, is the external video corrupted too when you move the laptop/screen or it affects only the internal LCD?
Here’s what you can try yourself. Lift up the laptop keyboard and disconnect the video cable from the motherboard. Boot the laptop with an external screen and see if you still have the same issue.
If the problem is gone when the laptop LCD is disconnected and the laptop works fine with the external monitor, then your problem is somewhere inside the laptop display assembly. If you still have a corrupted video output even when the laptop LCD is disconnected, then you might have a problem somewhere on the motherboard.
Before you do all that, try moving the memory module into the second slot and test the laptop again.
Let me know how it goes.
November 27th, 2006 at 9:01 pm
I have a similar problem with my screen flickering a rainbow of colors. This happened to me before with a Dell laptop, but I solved it by uninstalling the SBCYahoo programs. Now Im experiencing the same problem with my Gateway laptop but it doesnt have the SBCYahoo program. Actually, the Gateway worked fine until I started downloading some programs like YouTube Grabber, TubeSucker, and Total Video Convertor. I also downloaded a Windows Updater program or update from Microsoft, and I dont know what it did. Im beginning to suspect that its the Microsoft update thats at fault. Reason is: I uninstalled the video programs and the problem still continued. Im not sure if uninstalling the programs, like the Total Video Convertor, will uninstall any parts that came with it. Ie: the Convertor installs a codec on my comp to let me view FLV files. Ive tried a System Restore but that didnt work. Is there any way to undo the updates, or delete the codec? I dont know what driver my comp has because the video info screen says “unknown”. Thanks for the help.
November 28th, 2006 at 6:24 pm
Aivi,
Just to make sure that your problem is not related to the LCD screen, start the laptop with an external monitor and set the laptop to output video on the external monitor. Can you reproduce the problem on the external monitor? If you can see the same bad video output on the external screen, then it’s not a LCD related issue.
In case if it’s a software related problem, I think the best way would be to reload the hard drive back to original factory defaults using a recovery DVD. It’s very hard to troubleshoot software related issues and you can spend hours without any luck and only make it worst. I would recommend re-imaging the drive. BUT do not forget to back up all personal files before you run the restore process.
November 30th, 2006 at 11:16 am
I have an Acer Ferari 4000 laptop. Got the memory upgrade yesterday from 1gb to 1.5Gb. Afterwards, when i moe the laptop here and there, the screen starts flickering. tried toning down the resolution, but didnt’ help.
Please advise.
Thanks a ton
November 30th, 2006 at 10:14 pm
Naresh,
I think it’s just a coincidence and the video problem is not related to the memory upgrade. Do you still have the same video issue if you downgrade back to 1GB?
December 8th, 2006 at 5:39 am
Hello you clever people. Hope you can help me my son has a laptop which he punched. The screen now looks like a shattered glass but the pc seems to be ok. We have been told if we link it to an external monitor/tv via a 15 pin vga plug it will work ok? Is that true? Please help I can’t afford another one for him.
December 16th, 2006 at 1:19 am
I have a compaq n160 laptop
and have problem with the lcd screen
when i start it have seems like it has no problem
but after a few minuts it start flickering first slaw
then faster and faster untill I get a white smear on the
screen but it only happens on part of the screen
somthing like 3 quarters of the screen
and leaving me at the top a normal image
if try to reboot the that problem start immediately even
as the computer is rebooting
can you tell me if the problem is the screen
or an internal problem of the hardware?
December 16th, 2006 at 11:07 am
Amir,
It sounds like a bad screen.
December 19th, 2006 at 6:14 am
Hello! I have an issue with my Dell Inspiron 9400 monitor and I couldn’t find any better place to ask my question.
The problem is that my screen won’t shut off when I close the lid. It works perfectly in BIOS but not in Windows. I have “Do nothing” in the option in Energy options when you close the lid and I have tried exiting every process able in the Taskmanager. Still, my screen won’t shut down when I close the lid. Dell Support had no idea what program that could be making this fuss and my computer is about a month old so I don’t feel like formatting or reinstalling windows.
December 20th, 2006 at 8:24 pm
Fredrik,
What if you change “Do nothing” to “Stand by “ or “Hibernate”, will it go to stand by or hibernate when you close the lid? Change settings back to “Do nothing”, boot the laptop into safe mode (press F8 key on startup) and test it again. Will it work in safe mode? BTW, find out if there is a BIOS update for your model. Upgrade the BIOS if necessary.
December 20th, 2006 at 11:25 pm
I have a Gateway mx6025 and I have a problem with my screen going black. I can still faintly see the screen if I hold it to light I have it hooked up to an external monitor and I’m using it now to type this. The problem started a while back if you moved the screen it would go black and you could restart it and it would be ok. Now its always black it just flickers on when you first start it up for a second. Is this something I can fix? I took it apart once but didn’t know what I was looking for I thought maybe a broken wire or something unplugged but I didn’t see anything.
A possible solution for the problem has been published here: Screen on my laptop going black
December 23rd, 2006 at 11:43 am
Hello! Yes it works perfectly with Stand By or Hibernate but it won’t shut down the screen. I have a software called Softany Monitor Control which can turn off the screen via hotkeys and it works, but I still should be able to just shut my lid and my monitor should shut off. It didn’t work in Safe Mode but it works in BIOS. Do you think that a BIOS update can solve the issue? It seems to me there’s something with my windows, I got Windows Media Center Edittion by the way.
Thanks
// Fredrik
December 23rd, 2006 at 7:11 pm
Fredrik,
Not really sure what’s going on with your laptop. The laptop goes into Stand by and Hibernation mode when you close the lid, so the lid close switch works fine. I think the backlight is controlled on the BIOS level, not by the operating system. Here’s my understanding how it works. You close the screen and it activates the lid close switch, the lid close switch cuts off the power from the inverter board and the backlight goes off.
Did you have this problem before you installed Softany Monitor Control software? May be there is a conflict between Softany utility and the BIOS? Try uninstalling the utility. Not sure, that’s just a guess.
January 3rd, 2007 at 8:16 am
I have a HP zv6000. My screen recently started turning to “white” i guess… not sure how to describe it but it works for a short moment and then white horizontal lines start going thru the screen and the screen eventually freezes up. This is resolved if i move the screen slightly. It started doing this every so often and now its constant. I have had this for a little over a year and it has worked perfectly until now. I read somewhere it could be “issue with the wire-tape in the hinge of the lid”???? is this so?
January 3rd, 2007 at 8:18 am
also, if this is going to cost too much to fix, i am going to look for another laptop. I do alot of picture, video and movie editing. Could you advise what kind of laptop i should purchase or tell me what to stay away from?
January 3rd, 2007 at 4:04 pm
my laptop screen is fuzzy and blurs everything… it is a toshiba tectra 8200, is it just old and the screen is going bad? also it has happend before but it was fine for a while and then it went back to being fuzzy and has been science
-Jordan Gantt-
January 3rd, 2007 at 6:53 pm
Danielle,
First of all I would connect an external screen and test the external video. Can you set up the laptop to output video on both internal LCD and external monitor screens? With Toshiba laptops you have to use Fn+F5 key combination to set the video output, not sure about HP laptops.
So, connect the monitor and wait until the video fails. If both screens go bad and the same problem appears on the laptop screen and external monitor, then most likely you have a bad video card. If the video card is integrated into the motherboard, you’ll have to replace the motherboard.
If the video goes bad only on the laptop LCD but the external monitor works fine. You have either a bad video harness or bad LCD. I cannot say with one is causing the problem. For the test purposes it’s necessary either install a known good screen or replace the video harness.
This problem also could be caused by a loose video cable. I would try reseating the cable on both ends – on the motherboard and on the back of the LCD screen.
I don’t know what you mean by that. But it’s possible that the video cable coating is worn out and when you move the screen the wire from the harness touches the metal hinges crating a short. If would be necessary to examine the harness and if it’s damaged buy a new one.
January 3rd, 2007 at 7:15 pm
Jordan Gantt,
Test the laptop video with an external monitor as I described in the comment 26.
January 3rd, 2007 at 10:15 pm
My screen is very badly garbled… I cant really explain so i have a video posted here
I have narrowed the problem down to either the screen itself or the connectors. As you can see the laptop outputs fine but the screen is messed up. It was working perfectly 2 hours ago at which point i put it in standby and when i turned it back on about an hour ago it was like this. What should I do?
January 4th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
Philippe,
It’s hard to say. Either the LCD screen or the video harness is bad. What if you twist the LCD a little bit, will it change something? I would try reseating the video cable first and if it will not help, probably replace the video harness. It’s possible that replacing the harness will not help, but it’s much cheaper then replacing the LCD and you have a chance to fix the laptop. Replacing the LCD screen in some cases doesn’t make any sense because it’s cheaper to buy a new laptop.
January 5th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
I just wanted to update my situation. I opened the display and reseated the cable on the lcd and that did nothing. I did not open the case itself as I was worried that my intrusions would be obvious and void my warranty. I also formatted and reinstalled windows and all drivers and again no change. The good news is that I bought an extended warranty on it so I have sent it back to staples and they will fix it for me. I’m really glad that I bought an extended warranty and if anyone is debating if they should get one then I strongly recommend that they do purchase it.
February 6th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
Hi. I have a Sony Vaio PCG-V505BL notebook and 1 cm of screen at the bottom is garbled and flickers for about one month now. Tonight it got bigger, covering the lower 1/3 of the screen (similar to Reuben’s problem on 10/22/06). I twisted the screen gently to make this big flicker go away, but the 1 cm at the bottom remains. The screen is perfectly good other than this. The flicker doesn’t go away with restarting (like Sohaib Mansoor on 10/30/06). Connection to an external LCD shows a normal screen. I’m not too computer savvy and will take it to a shop for repair I guess, but don’t want to get ripped off. Any advice? Is there something that I can easily check like the connections or is the LCD screen bad?
February 7th, 2007 at 7:08 am
Hi Nicole.
I had a Vaio pcg-k25 with the same problem. I replaced the cable from the screen to the motherboard and it worked fine.
February 28th, 2007 at 7:11 pm
Hello,
I recently had a cracked LCD screen on my Thinkpad T20 as a result of an overhead bin on an airliner accident. I replaced the LCD with one that was new (still in the green static wrapper with the protective film on the screen), so I assume the LCD is still okay. But, when I boot up the laptop, the colors are all messed up. Connecting it to an external monitor shows normal color and display, so I’ve eliminated the video card or driver issues as the problem. Did I wind up with a bum LCD or is it another issue?
Thanks,
Steve
February 28th, 2007 at 8:38 pm
Steve,
Make sure the video cable on the back of the LCD screen is seated properly, all the way down inside the connector. If this laptop has a discrete graphics card make sure it properly connected to the motherboard, it’s possible the graphics card was dislocated during the accident. Check the video cable connection on the graphics card. IBM ThinkPad HMMs might be helpful.
What do you mean by “the colors are all messed up”? Is it like you see red instead of green, black instead of white, etc…? If reseating the video cable (and graphics card) will not help probably you got a bad LCD screen.
One guy has a similar problem with his screen – comment #41.
March 1st, 2007 at 2:55 am
Hello, I have a problem with my Presario V3000. Recently, when I am using the laptop and unplug it from a power source and use only battery power, the screen goes black and flickers. This only happens occasionaly, and when I plug it back in it works fine, unplug= flicker. And if I restart the computer it works fine on battery power. Any thoughts?
Thanks
Bryan
March 1st, 2007 at 9:32 am
Well, after sleeping on it, I decided to hook my old, cracked LCD back up to at least rule out the new LCD as being bad. Guess what? Colors were back to normal (by colors screwed up I mean pixilated….badly). So, I’m guessing it’s the screen and not the video cable since the only thing wrong with the old screen when I hooked it back in were the three huge cracks in it….
March 4th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
Not a reply,but a question,My monitor has a problem,it is a “19 princeton vl1918,when i power it on the picture briefly flashes on ,then to black screen,what is the problem with this?It is a little than a year old and was working,then suddenly blacks out,get this”right after the warranty period,and this has me fuming,because i spent close to $300.00 for this monitor,would this be worth repairing? any response would be cool,You don’t have to try to save the world, but any advice would be nice.
March 19th, 2007 at 7:18 pm
The vl1918 has a power supply issue most likely. I have 3 with the same problem. I just bought them on ebay. My guess is that the transistor that runs the power supply is failing. I just opened one up tonight and started toubleshooting it. If I get mine back up I’ll let you know what I did.
March 24th, 2007 at 2:03 am
I have a similar problem with my Princeton vl1918. The monitor shuts off and restarts every couple seconds. I see several of these on eBay with the same problem. It seems likely to me that it is a manufacturing defect of some sort.
I don’t thinks it’s the inverter or bulb since it seems to be power cycling, but I have not opened it up and if any one knows for sure, I would appreciate the insight.
September 15th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
MY dell inspiron LAPTOP does not display but only glows when i turn on the power, it formally would display on an external monitor– but now no more. so what is the problem, and how can i solve it.
September 25th, 2007 at 8:38 am
Please help me in this regard!
I have Toshiba Satellite A105-S4084. My screen gets flickery sometimes and when i move the screen back and forth at one angle it comes back and works completely fine. But when it gets flickered even my mouse doesnt work. Looks like it loses connection between screen and base. What should i do?
Thanks
Amir
September 30th, 2007 at 10:06 pm
Amir,
I think your laptop might have a loose connection between the video cable and the LCD screen. Try reconnecting the video cable on the back of the screen.
October 1st, 2007 at 6:56 pm
My Dell Latitude D610 recently started to have tiny white bars across the bottom third of the screen. When I applied pressure to different parts of the screen or twisted it a little, it would go away, but now I can’t get it to go away for very long, and it’s started to have thicker bars flickering up and down the bottom. This laptop is about 2 years old…am I going to have to buy a new screen/laptop, or is it easily fixable?
October 1st, 2007 at 9:41 pm
Sarah,
It looks like you have a bad LCD screen. You’ll have to replace the screen.
October 1st, 2007 at 11:26 pm
I replaced my broken screen on my Gateway 7422GX but image quality is poor and there is a flickering line. The images are not smooth and boxy colored pixels show up. The flickering line is usually cyan and shows up along the task bar and in the title bar of applications. The poor images symptoms also reveal themselves in banners, images, and video on websites.
Initially I thought I just needed to adjust display settings and update drivers but the problem was still there. So I hooked my broken screen back up and the image was excellent other than the damage on the lower right. I exchange the screen for another thinking that I got a bad screen.
Now with this second screen installed, I am having similar problems to a lesser degree. There is still the flickering lines and images show blobs of color in highlights and shadows.
I have made sure the screen models were the same as the original, LTN154X1-L03. I connected my laptop to an external monitor and there were no image problems. Did I get another bad screen or can I fix it?
October 5th, 2007 at 7:40 am
My daughter’s T30 2366 dropped. Now when I boot, the screen flickers a second in an aurora borealis-sorta way, and goes dark. I’ve hooked up an external monitor and it’s fine, so I guess it’s hardware. I began disassembling the screen to see what trouble I could cause, check connections, loose plugs, etc. I booted it to see if any fiddling might affect the picture. Nada. Then I lowered the backlight setting all the way, and now the screen is full of colorful flickering things. The colors seem to change as I hold it differently or squeeze certain places and even if I lay it down face up. I’m afraid to think I need a new LCD, but is there any other possible cause?
October 6th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
Refer to this link. Disregard the blurry picture. That’s my lack of photography skills. Instead, please tell me what’s making any LCD I connect to this laptop display images (including BIOS screen) 4 times. Despite the bad photography, the 4 images are perfect representations of the 1 image that is supposed to be seen on the display, i.e. no blurriness or dimness. External monitors show the 1 image perfectly.
November 1st, 2007 at 12:10 pm
My son was sitting at his desk doing his homework, slide the chair back and the arms of the chair jarred the desk causing the laptop to jump up and back down on the desk. Now, he said that behind the screen, it looks like the glass is shattered. We have a 1 yr warranty on the laptop just purchased in August and the company isn’t going to cover it. What can I do?
December 12th, 2007 at 8:39 pm
okay my mother and sister both have Gateways MX6025 and i have a question for both. first my moms computer which i’m on now with it connected to an old gateway monitor, i have to hookit up to it to see the screen because on the actual laptop it is almost all white except it has a strip of black with a blue line in the middle of the screen. any ideas on how to get the screen back to working normal? Then my sisters comeputer will turn on for a second or two ten seonds at themost enough time for me to get into the Bios settings then it just shuts off. Gateway seems to think its battery problem but i have a good battery and it still does it.
March 2nd, 2008 at 5:19 am
Help, I have a hp pavilion dv8000. I love my laptop. I have an intermitten problem with my display. Sometimes the picture is fine but, at times the screen is garbled with vertical lines that are multi color fading to grey. If I apply pressure to the back of the screen the lines would go away, now it’s very hard to make them go away. I will move the screen up and down until I find a good spot, I have to hold that spot untill I am done. When I let go the lines come back. I am in no way a pc tech person but, I think that I can make this repair myself. I hope that you are able to responed to this. I did find one other comment close to mine but only 1/3 of the screen had the concern.
March 11th, 2008 at 6:49 am
horizontal lines in my new acer laptop screen have a slight bowing ie: it is curved, this bowing is changing or moving from time to time when the screen is warmed up !! what i know lcd has 0 geometric distortion, but what is going on here ??
Thank you for support.
March 11th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Hello..I have Lenovo N100, 1 year old, suddenly My screen has gone all white, hdd working fine, display with other monitor is fine, I can adjust brightness, I tried reseating the connections inside but still not working….Pls HELP..
Thanks
March 22nd, 2008 at 7:45 am
I have the same laptop HP DV8000 and the same problem is this a cable problem or a LCD problem?
Lucky Lynnie Says:
Help, I have a hp pavilion dv8000. I love my laptop. I have an intermitten problem with my display. Sometimes the picture is fine but, at times the screen is garbled with vertical lines that are multi color fading to grey. If I apply pressure to the back of the screen the lines would go away, now it’s very hard to make them go away. I will move the screen up and down until I find a good spot, I have to hold that spot untill I am done. When I let go the lines come back. I am in no way a pc tech person but, I think that I can make this repair myself. I hope that you are able to responed to this. I did find one other comment close to mine but only 1/3 of the screen had the concern.
March 22nd, 2008 at 10:05 am
Glenn54, Lucky Lynnie,
That problem can be related to bad video cable, loose connection or bad LCD screen.
I posted some troubleshooting steps here:
The screen is garbled with vertical lines that are multicolor fading to gray
March 22nd, 2008 at 9:21 pm
Today I took it apart nd found the right hing is broken, this seem to be the problem maybe….I’ll let you know once I replace it.
March 26th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
I ordered a set of hinges for $27 on ebay it’ll be here in a couple of days.
When I had the hinge cover and the bezel off I broke away the piece that was pressing against the screen with good results. As long as I move the screen slowly it hasn’t flickered at all. So I’m going to assume this is my problem
July 8th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Compaq Presario V3000 Series Notebook PC.
i have problem with my screen flickering a rainbow of colors even when i was at the windows bootup logo.
but when i using a video output everything is fine. Any Idea?
July 8th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
Chris,
Could be loose connection, bad video cable or bad LCD screen. I’ve posted some suggestions here: Notebook screen flickering a rainbow of colors
September 16th, 2008 at 4:39 am
I have HP 500 Laptop which is about 15 months old. The problem with the LCD screen is that, if I open the screen at an angle more than 90degrees, it shows red color clouds & lines at some parts of the screen. If I open it at 90 degrees, it works perfectly fine. what can be the problem & what should I do. Pl suggest.
September 16th, 2008 at 4:45 am
Further, I used an external Monitor along with the laptop, the external monitor worked fine.
September 29th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
have exactly same problem as ruben above with 1/3 screen corrupted on hp laptop messing around with screen and mouse for some reason corrects problem
should i take it apart and back together again?
even though his was I think lenovo it looks identical
except for the cat
November 4th, 2008 at 6:58 am
hey guys i have a hp pavilion zv6000 sometimes the scree will get a white color and my mouse willl quit working but if i have another external monitor hooked up mouse is working fine good picture when i move the screen up and down just moving it it willl come back on then after a while it willl do it again is it possiable i have a loose connection thanks guys ahead of time
November 12th, 2008 at 7:36 am
hi friends
I have acer travelmate notebook its two years old. it was working fine and suddenly the screen started giving me hard time. sometimes screen starts flickering and when i tap on the corners or press some points close to key board, place it on floor, carpet it starts working fine. any body who can help me with this issue will be appericiated.