My 1.5 year old laptops LCD screen after 6 month use started showing 1 horizontal white pixel line (well the line color kind of depends on what colors are above the line but usually it’s white) after 3 more months second appeared and today I spotted a third one now it’s one 3 pixel thick [...]
My Toshiba Satellite’s LCD stopped working. I tested by attaching an external monitor to it and the display works. I couldn’t figure out if it was the back light, LCD, or inverter. I’ve shinned a flashlight on the LCD and cannot see anything. Though when I dim the lights, I see the LCD lite up. [...]
My Dell laptop has been giving me these strange horizontal and angular lines and dots on my screen with different characters on the text as well. Tried reloading fresh windows and drivers but still the same.
If reinstalling the operating system doesn’t help, it’s definitely a hardware related failure.
First of all, test your laptop with video [...]
I have Toshiba Satellite M305 laptop for past couple of months my laptop screen is giving me problems. Sometimes my screen would have like horizontal lines and after while screen will get blank but I can still see backlight is on. If i turn it off and turn right back on it will work fine [...]
About a couple weeks ago I started noticing a screen issue that’s different from anything described on this website. I now see several bright areas or blotches across the screen. One blotch is brighter than the others. Changing the brightness of the screen doesn’t help. The blotches are most noticeable when working an application with [...]
The laptop powers up and the screen illumination is ok, but instead of graphics I get horizontal and vertical lines on the screen, they are colorful and bright. Also if connected to external monitor I get a normal display, so I think the graphics chip is ok.. any ideas ?
If the laptop works fine with [...]
Recently I have been having problems with the LCD screen. When I turn on my laptop the bottom 1/3 of the screen will either freeze the image, turn black, or become fuzzy and look like a crazy barcode. The mouse pointer disappears when moved into this zone. The top 2/3 of the screen always works [...]
Is the graphics card upgradeable for a Gateway MD7818U laptop? If no one knows how can I find out without having to either call the company or break open the laptop?
According to the Gateway MD7818U laptop review I found on NotebookReview.com, this model has Intel 4500MHD Integrated Graphics. It means, the video card is integrated [...]
I have a Dell Inspiron 9400 laptop and a few months ago two very thin (one-pixel-wide) vertical lines appeared to the very left of my 17 inch screen, one green, one yellow. Since it was a minor nuisance I ignored it. Week by week, one or two more would appear gradually more and more to [...]
I have a Dell Inspiron 8200 with an ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 Video Card, Ultra Sharp UXGA LCD screen.
I have finally fixed my laptop’s Video problem. I had what I would call a vertical pixel line (slightly jagged) problem with the screen. Sometimes it was horizontal lines but the lines where not all the way [...]
