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Help! Laptop screen flickering

  • 25-08-2008 9:31pm
    #1
    IrishPhoenix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 634 ✭✭✭


    My laptop screen has suddently started flickering madly and has white horizontal lines going through the scene. It acts like its possessed for a few minutes and then reverts to normal. At least until it decided to throw a fit again?

    Can anybody tell me what's wrong and how to fix it?


Comments

  • #2
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    any clue at all whats triggering it? Is it when you jiggle the laptop? Play a video? Change the brightness? The last time I saw a device go haywire like you describe it was my Nokia 3650 after it took a trip in the washing machine. And survived!

    Out of interest what graphics card do you have on the laptop.


  • #3
    Auvers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,987 ✭✭✭Auvers


    Could be your laptop Inverter. Inverters are sensitive to vibration especially when nearing it's end of life, try tapping the bottom edge of your screen and see if that induce any flickering.


  • #4
    Conor108
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭Conor108


    My laptop used to do that after I opened the lid. Fixed it by re-installing graphic card drivers


  • #5
    BrokenArrows
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,501 ✭✭✭BrokenArrows


    this happened my 2 month old Dell XPS m1530. A few days later the screen went totally dead.

    Had to be replaced by a dell tech. Im very happy with the dell support i got. I logged the problem on friday evening and the guy was there monday morning and fixed it in 30 minutes.


  • #6
    charlesD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 194 ✭✭charlesD


    It does sound like a hardware problem, but if you have your resolution and refresh rate set to high this can also happen. Since you said it comes and goes though, I would be inclined to believe it is a hardware problem.

    Just to be on the safe side, now would be a good time to back up your files...


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