Comments on: I have a Dell Latitude D500 notebook and of late, the LCD display has been acting rather strange

By: P.M.R

P.M.R — Thu, 28 May 2009 04:49:27 +0000

This is what’s up, more than likely. How dirty is the fan? Is it khaki or brown colored? If so, or even if not, the fan, cooler, and whole insides should be checked for dust, resulting in the comupter overheating, which will cause images, freezing, crashing, your color’s and resolution to automatically decrease, you know…….. Another thing to check out is that the fan is on the bottom left hand corner, and it blow’s out of the back right near where you plug in the power cable to the back of your computer, so make sure your rubber boot’s are on the bottom corner’s as they are suppose to be, try to sit your back left hand corner of the laptop over the edge an inch or two. I’m sure the problem is over-heating. Maybe your fan’s burned up as well, who know.

By: Charly1

Charly1 — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:07:00 +0000

Hi.. I have a DELL INSPIRON 6400 with LCD has bottom band horizontal blank/grey. How can I do? Thank You.

By: Felecia Smileegirl

Felecia Smileegirl — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:22:25 +0000

Hi … I need help … Pretty please? I have a Toshiba Satelite P35-S6112 17″ notebook. I’ve had it for a few years now. About a year ago, it started to develop vertical lines a couple at a time. After researching the problem, and determning if the problem was in the display by hooking my notebook up to an external monitor, I purchased a new display and installed it. Four day later, two new lines … then another and another. Is something causing the the lines or is it my bad luck and it’s just another defective display? Could it be the display harness is defective and it is causing the lines? If it is possibly the display harness/cable, will the vertical lines not be present after the display harness is replaced?

Thank you very much for any and all ideas and suggestions.
Felecia

By: James

James — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:44:08 +0000

I have just encountered a problem with my Dell Latitude D620. The keyboard stoped functioning properly, it’s supprising that the dead keys are only for numbers 1,2,3,4,7,8,9,0. I tried all the way to key in the charaters in but there appeared nothing. I guess that because it was overheated for some hours yesterday. What should I do?

By: Lennie

Lennie — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:23:36 +0000

I have a Dell Latitude C600 and have the same problem. I replaced the motherboard with a brand new one thinking that this would solve the problem, but the problem is still there. The screen sometimes turns red and sometimes turns a very light color then it starts to get those lines in it. Sometimes it will just start working by itself.

I had attributed the problem to overheating because at the same time this happened the fan quit running and the laptop got pretty warm. So I was really surprised to see the brand new fan on the new motherboard not working either, along with the same funky problem with the screen.

But I’m really not sure if the heat is actually the culprit, because the screen came up red the very first time I turned it on after replacing the motherboard and it hadn’t had a chance to heat up yet.

It has the latest (A23) bios, just like the old MB. And I put new ram in it too. But the processor is the one I took out of the old MB.

By: Arcadian Del Sol

Arcadian Del Sol — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:52:01 +0000

I have a Dell Latitude D500 that locks up when you boot it up. The fans spin for 4 seconds and stop. the hard drive churns for 4 seconds, stops. it sits and does nothing. If I unplug the display, then the bios screen shows and then XP launches – I can then reseat the display cable to the motherboard and the laptop works fine until the next boot.

The problem does not happen if I remove the display cable and use an external monitor.

motherboard, video, or display – what do you think I need to replace?

By: Gaurav

Gaurav — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:10:50 +0000

Hi,

I am having the same problem with my Dell Latitude D510 as JL in the third post…with the image.
Any idea what his exact problem was and how he resolved it? And if not, could I get his/her contact details?
The display behaves strangely, sometimes its frozen and other times it works perfectly. Very grateful for any comments.
BR/ Gaurav

By: Karl

Karl — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:43:02 +0000

Just to echo what many others have said already:

I have a Dell Latitude D620, and I have recently started to experience the vertical stripes problem. I noticed that if I just pushed the screen back or forwards a little, it would go back to normal. However, as of late, that has not ben sufficient to get rid of the stripes. So today I had to connect an external monitor in order to see what I was doing. (The external monitor works perfect, btw.)

I then found this thread and I can confirm that both the advice about twisting the display and the advice about pressing firmly just below the display (about 1.5 inches to the right of centre) made the stripes go away temporarily. A few minutes ago I pressed down for a while and perhaps even firmer than before, and the stripes have not returned since. Now I’m afraid to move the display at all in case the stripes should return again

So it looks to me as if the problem is some loose cables or something similar. If the problem returns, I’ll have to open up the computer and see for myself, I suppose.

Thanks for the advice so far in this thread!!!

By: malc

malc — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:53:23 +0000

I have exactly the same problem as JL (judging by the look of the screen), but permanently. From the startup on I just see those irregular vertical lines (I can’t even see BIOS).
And the problem continues even if I leave it on for hours, or turn it off for days.
External monitor works great.
Backlight works great.
I have twisted, shaken, etc the LCD screen. I have unplugged and plugged (and twisted) every cable related to the screen. Absolutely no change.
Small (probably irrelevant) detail: the colour of the lines change according to content being displayed.

Thanks so much for your help.

By: Nate

Nate — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:15:13 +0000

well i’m trying to update my driver cause my games are telling me too, so i tried to see if windows would find it but didnt so i looked for the newer version but couldnt download it cause of errors on the web page

Display driver know is- ATI Mobility Radeon IGP 7000 version 6.14.10.6493

The one i need is-ATI Mobility Radeon IGP 7000 version 6.14.10.6525

P.S- The ATI manufacture doesnt show the driver updates now, Because its such a old graphic card if u could give me a link to where i could download this driver it would be very helpful thx

OO also could u make sure the download, Downloads, cause last time the download took me to a error page