Comments on: The screen is garbled with vertical lines that are multicolor fading to gray

By: ALEX

ALEX — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:27:43 +0000

I got vertical lines on my Toshiba Qosmio G25. I’m using external monitor.
So the video card is ok.
If someone knows the reason, please email me (numbers AT mail.ru), I can replace broken part. The problem is I can’t diagnose the problem.

By: Nadia

Nadia — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:57:16 +0000

hi, I have HP pavilian 9600, it has the problem that when it starts then these lines comes up and never goes away, would it be hardware problem or some virus?
My laptop used to heat up allot and sometimes used to shut down as well as it has fans underneath and when i sit in bed and place laptop there then it no air goes in and heats up.
Its fans should have been on side like my sisiters laptop dell which do not heat up bcoz its fans are at sides not underneath!
pls leave comment. thanks.

By: mecpaul

mecpaul — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:25:09 +0000

Hi everyone, just would like to say that i’ve got a toshiba
tablet where that symptoms are present.
1-screen freezing
2-thin coloured columns that change colour until fade to black
3- random characters at boot

I thought it was related with virus; I ran safe mode and start avast at boot after that the symptoms go away; Bu every now and then they come back, but always after some strange event (like mail reading or/ad virus detection, usb pen install) but after i read these comments i’m not so sure.

Could someone comment my post?
thx
mecpaul

By: Laptop Freak

Laptop Freak — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:01:19 +0000

Doug,

My dv8000 is doing the same thing as the rest of these people could it jsut be the invertor?

If the screen lights up and you can see the image, even though it is garbled or has lines, it’s not related to the inverter.
If the screen lights up, the inverter works properly.

By: Doug

Doug — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:16:46 +0000

My dv8000 is doing the same thing as the rest of these people could it jsut be the invertor?

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:07:38 +0000

I have Toshiba Satellite 5205 s703 and the display suddenly seemed to fail resulting in low resolution and pink vertical stripes over the entire screen. There are white stripes on the boot up screens also, the screen seems unstable it flickers and white pages turn pink too. I have been able to increase the resolution so that I can just about use it for some tasks.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:54:59 +0000

I have a similar problem with the multi-colored lines after logging in to Windows. This occurred immediately after I uninstalled a background software program for My Space.

The desktop background is black, is displaying the icons and taskbar fine but has four multi-colored lines. From the top, grey, blue, yellow and redish-pink, each light in the center fading to darker on each end. This takes up the top 3/4 of the screen. Right above the task bar there are four blue shaded bars then two grey bars.

The interesting part that I didn’t see mentioned above is when switching users, the other user’s desktop display is normal. It, therefore, does not appear to be a video card.

Ran a virus scan, rebooted, still the same issue.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

By: Linda

Linda — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:21:44 +0000

I am having the identical problem with my dv8000. I used my desktop monitor hooked to the laptop. Now the laptop shows the screen as if it is in miniature. Instead of widescreen the laptop screen looks like the desktop monitor screen — sort of a window on the laptop with a black background all around it. I can use either screen as long as its hooked to the monitor. Does that mean that the LCD screen is OK? Would it be possible to use a different resolution and still use the laptop. (altho I love that huge screen on my laptop) The background black area has vertical lines running through it.

Before I used the desktop monitor, my laptop screen had gone to where I could only see the bottom half of the screen — the top half was a green black (looked like a light was behind it… can’t explain it)

Is there a way to repair this? Would a new screen work?

Thanks~

By: Dixon Loh

Dixon Loh — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:18:52 +0000

Ok so i have a screen issue, after a few seconds of use, the computer spouts red pixels EVERYWHERE, they are on the words making them look like dripping blood and sometimes there are blue and green, this is getting very annoying.

It is not a problem with my LCD for i have already tried an external monitor,
I’ve uninstalled every game i have installed since the problem started
I have already replaced my graphics card (Nvidia Geforce FX Go5200)
The temp of the laptop is around 50 and 54 in use and already has these dots so i’m not sure if its a heat problem.

Please help me
Thank you

Dixon

By: dadhichi

dadhichi — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:57:06 +0000

i use hp laptop and recently the screen started showing one straight doted line from top to bottom it is there from the time switch on the laptop till i switch off. now from one more line has appered . i dont know if it is realted with the screen or the video card . need help for u guys if it can be solved by my own or i need to take it to some professnal as right now i m in avery remot area it will be very difficult to vesit a professnal for me so plese sugust so messeruse which i can undertake
thank u