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LCD display broken? Anyone recognize the symptoms?
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January 5th, 2010
My laptop LCD display just went all wierd, it looks sort of like I took the whole screen and did a photoshop rasterized downconversion to 16 colors (everything is rasterized and the colors are burning, same thing over the entire screen).
It happened suddenly without any obvious interaction done by me, when watching a video online with the computer on my lap. The gpu has always been running somewhat hot (65–80 deg C), and i’m a bit concerned it might have burned out – although it’s still running.
The graphics settings are at 1280×800 and 32-bit color, i’ve tried the following:
– letting the computer rest and cool down – no difference.
– updating the graphics drivers – made a difference for 30 seconds, then reverted to wierdness.
– changing resolution and color depth – no difference.
Am i screwed here? Warranty is long gone unfortunately so I am a bit keen on fixing it myself if possible.
Anyone recognize the symptoms? I’ve heard of dead pixels and broken LCD screens from physical destruction, but never seen anything like this.
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