Borked Laptop Screen?

Sleepy

Hi all, I've got a Dell Latitude C600 and lately my monitor's giving me problems. Intermittently, the screen show's colour distortions which move a bit, e.g. white's become cyan and blacks/blues become pink.

I'm not sure if it's hardware or driver related but it doesn't seem to be borked pixels in the monitor or something like that because the problem is completely intermittent, it can dissapear for days and then just reappear again.

I've tried to screenshot it. Any ideas?

Sleepy

Ok, problems gone again now, but that screenshot lets me know that it's hardware related somehow (it looks fine). Could a lose connection or something like that be causing this?

daywalker

Laptop screens are connected by a thin ribbon connection, usually located at hinge areas, it could be that this ribbon connection at the board level has moved slightly out of its socket. The only way to check it to open the laptop and ensure the connection is snug with its socket on the board.

Sleepy

Tried that daywalker but it doesn't seemed to have worked...

Anyone else got any ideas?

sceptre

You could take the LCD assembly apart and check the other end of the ribbon (attached to the actual LCD) but to be honest I'd be pretty slow to do that myself at home with my own machine despite having done it to other machines when plenty of replacement parts were available. Having said that, it's relatively rare for that end of the connection to come loose given that it isn't set in a moving part.

spartacus93

I have a similar problem with my inspiron 8100, i find moving the casing just above the keyboard, and below the dell logo on the lcd helps the problem. Pushing down on this and moving it slightly. I have opened mine up and there isnt any loose connections, but somehow this helps. Although im writing this from a C610 and the casing is different, on my inspiron the top bit over the keyboard can be removed witht out removing any screws, it doesn't look like the same can be done with yours

DingChavez

lol "broked", I love that word!

Sleepy

spartacus93 wrote:

I have a similar problem with my inspiron 8100, i find moving the casing just above the keyboard, and below the dell logo on the lcd helps the problem. Pushing down on this and moving it slightly. I have opened mine up and there isnt any loose connections, but somehow this helps. Although im writing this from a C610 and the casing is different, on my inspiron the top bit over the keyboard can be removed witht out removing any screws, it doesn't look like the same can be done with yours

Actually, the latitude does let you open that part of the body. It's a strange problem really. Very intermittent and there doesn't seem to be anything that causes it to go wrong/right itself other than when I close up the laptop and put it in a bag to transport it somewhere... strange one!