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Acer Aspire 5630 Laptop screen/display problem
Got the above laptop and it's just developed a problem with the
screen/display - there's a 65mm column at the right-hand side of the display that's gone dark. Applications open up properly and you can see the whole width of the app, but it doesn't go the whole width of the screen - sort of full display but not full screen if you see what I mean. Also, don't know if it's relevant or not but the taskbar at the bottom seems to be twice as tall as normal and isn't drag-able back to it's usual size - cursor also distorts in this area. I'm not explaining it very well, so have a look at this photo: http://s137.photobucket.com/albums/q...nt=laptop1.jpg At first I thought it may be a display driver issue but I've uninstalled and reinstalled without success. I've also used a program called #1-TuffTest Pro (http://www.tufftest.com/ttp01.htm) that is self-booting, operating system independent and never goes anywhere near Windows, but shows the same results, so I would say that that rules out any Windows driver issues. Picture of that test he http://s137.photobucket.com/albums/q...nt=laptop2.jpg Any ideas what's wrong and how to fix it? TIA, Pete |
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Pete Zahut typed on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:42:46 +0100: Got the above laptop and it's just developed a problem with the screen/display - there's a 65mm column at the right-hand side of the display that's gone dark. Applications open up properly and you can see the whole width of the app, but it doesn't go the whole width of the screen - sort of full display but not full screen if you see what I mean. Also, don't know if it's relevant or not but the taskbar at the bottom seems to be twice as tall as normal and isn't drag-able back to it's usual size - cursor also distorts in this area. I'm not explaining it very well, so have a look at this photo: http://s137.photobucket.com/albums/q...nt=laptop1.jpg At first I thought it may be a display driver issue but I've uninstalled and reinstalled without success. I've also used a program called #1-TuffTest Pro (http://www.tufftest.com/ttp01.htm) that is self-booting, operating system independent and never goes anywhere near Windows, but shows the same results, so I would say that that rules out any Windows driver issues. Picture of that test he http://s137.photobucket.com/albums/q...nt=laptop2.jpg Any ideas what's wrong and how to fix it? TIA, Hi Pete! Wow that is weird. An external monitor I can see this happening. Internal monitor, I never saw this. Any chance you can hook it up to an external? I suspect the same result. Although you may adjust it to display correctly. In either case, I believe you have to take it in for service. It is still under warrantee, right? -- Bill Asus EEE PC 701G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC Windows XP SP2 |
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Pete Zahut wrote:
Got the above laptop and it's just developed a problem with the screen/display - there's a 65mm column at the right-hand side of the display that's gone dark. Applications open up properly and you can see the whole width of the app, but it doesn't go the whole width of the screen - sort of full display but not full screen if you see what I mean. Also, don't know if it's relevant or not but the taskbar at the bottom seems to be twice as tall as normal and isn't drag-able back to it's usual size - cursor also distorts in this area. I'm not explaining it very well, so have a look at this photo: http://s137.photobucket.com/albums/q...nt=laptop1.jpg At first I thought it may be a display driver issue but I've uninstalled and reinstalled without success. I've also used a program called #1-TuffTest Pro (http://www.tufftest.com/ttp01.htm) that is self-booting, operating system independent and never goes anywhere near Windows, but shows the same results, so I would say that that rules out any Windows driver issues. Picture of that test he http://s137.photobucket.com/albums/q...nt=laptop2.jpg Any ideas what's wrong and how to fix it? TIA, Pete Have you done a graphics driver update recently ? It looks like a mismatch, between the actual LCD panel, and what the software thinks it is driving. Paul |
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In , Pete Zahut typed on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:42:46 +0100: Got the above laptop and it's just developed a problem with the screen/display - there's a 65mm column at the right-hand side of the display that's gone dark. Applications open up properly and you can see the whole width of the app, but it doesn't go the whole width of the screen - sort of full display but not full screen if you see what I mean. Also, don't know if it's relevant or not but the taskbar at the bottom seems to be twice as tall as normal and isn't drag-able back to it's usual size - cursor also distorts in this area. I'm not explaining it very well, so have a look at this photo: http://s137.photobucket.com/albums/q...nt=laptop1.jpg At first I thought it may be a display driver issue but I've uninstalled and reinstalled without success. I've also used a program called #1-TuffTest Pro (http://www.tufftest.com/ttp01.htm) that is self-booting, operating system independent and never goes anywhere near Windows, but shows the same results, so I would say that that rules out any Windows driver issues. Picture of that test he http://s137.photobucket.com/albums/q...nt=laptop2.jpg Any ideas what's wrong and how to fix it? TIA, Hi Pete! Wow that is weird. An external monitor I can see this happening. Internal monitor, I never saw this. Any chance you can hook it up to an external? I suspect the same result. Although you may adjust it to display correctly. In either case, I believe you have to take it in for service. It is still under warrantee, right? I haven't as yet hooked it up to an external monitor, but will do later today when I have chance, and let you know what I find. Unfortunately, it's not in warranty so whatever it is, I'll have to pay for the repair if it's a hardware fault ( Thanks Bill |
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Pete Zahut wrote: Got the above laptop and it's just developed a problem with the screen/display - there's a 65mm column at the right-hand side of the display that's gone dark. Applications open up properly and you can see the whole width of the app, but it doesn't go the whole width of the screen - sort of full display but not full screen if you see what I mean. Also, don't know if it's relevant or not but the taskbar at the bottom seems to be twice as tall as normal and isn't drag-able back to it's usual size - cursor also distorts in this area. I'm not explaining it very well, so have a look at this photo: http://s137.photobucket.com/albums/q...nt=laptop1.jpg At first I thought it may be a display driver issue but I've uninstalled and reinstalled without success. I've also used a program called #1-TuffTest Pro (http://www.tufftest.com/ttp01.htm) that is self-booting, operating system independent and never goes anywhere near Windows, but shows the same results, so I would say that that rules out any Windows driver issues. Picture of that test he http://s137.photobucket.com/albums/q...nt=laptop2.jpg Any ideas what's wrong and how to fix it? TIA, Pete Have you done a graphics driver update recently ? No - uninstalled and reinstalled driver to try to fix the problem, but not updated. It looks like a mismatch, between the actual LCD panel, and what the software thinks it is driving. Paul Yeah, I'd agree with you there Paul - except for the fact that I've even used the Recovery CD/Partition to restore the laptop to the state it was in when it left the factory and the display is still faulty even then. |
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Pete Zahut wrote:
BillW50 wrote: In , Pete Zahut typed on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:42:46 +0100: Got the above laptop and it's just developed a problem with the screen/display - there's a 65mm column at the right-hand side of the display that's gone dark. Applications open up properly and you can see the whole width of the app, but it doesn't go the whole width of the screen - sort of full display but not full screen if you see what I mean. Also, don't know if it's relevant or not but the taskbar at the bottom seems to be twice as tall as normal and isn't drag-able back to it's usual size - cursor also distorts in this area. I'm not explaining it very well, so have a look at this photo: http://s137.photobucket.com/albums/q...nt=laptop1.jpg At first I thought it may be a display driver issue but I've uninstalled and reinstalled without success. I've also used a program called #1-TuffTest Pro (http://www.tufftest.com/ttp01.htm) that is self-booting, operating system independent and never goes anywhere near Windows, but shows the same results, so I would say that that rules out any Windows driver issues. Picture of that test he http://s137.photobucket.com/albums/q...nt=laptop2.jpg Any ideas what's wrong and how to fix it? TIA, Hi Pete! Wow that is weird. An external monitor I can see this happening. Internal monitor, I never saw this. Any chance you can hook it up to an external? I suspect the same result. Although you may adjust it to display correctly. In either case, I believe you have to take it in for service. It is still under warrantee, right? I haven't as yet hooked it up to an external monitor, but will do later today when I have chance, and let you know what I find. Unfortunately, it's not in warranty so whatever it is, I'll have to pay for the repair if it's a hardware fault ( Thanks Bill Bill (and anyone else who's interested, of course), further to the above I've now hooked it up to an external monitor and the display on the external monitor is perfect. Photo at http://s137.photobucket.com/albums/q...t=laptop2a.jpg Don't know what that means though ( Pete |
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Pete Zahut typed on Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:22:24 +0100: Pete Zahut wrote: BillW50 wrote: In , Pete Zahut typed on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:42:46 +0100: Got the above laptop and it's just developed a problem with the screen/display - there's a 65mm column at the right-hand side of the display that's gone dark. Applications open up properly and you can see the whole width of the app, but it doesn't go the whole width of the screen - sort of full display but not full screen if you see what I mean. Also, don't know if it's relevant or not but the taskbar at the bottom seems to be twice as tall as normal and isn't drag-able back to it's usual size - cursor also distorts in this area. I'm not explaining it very well, so have a look at this photo: http://s137.photobucket.com/albums/q...nt=laptop1.jpg At first I thought it may be a display driver issue but I've uninstalled and reinstalled without success. I've also used a program called #1-TuffTest Pro (http://www.tufftest.com/ttp01.htm) that is self-booting, operating system independent and never goes anywhere near Windows, but shows the same results, so I would say that that rules out any Windows driver issues. Picture of that test he http://s137.photobucket.com/albums/q...nt=laptop2.jpg Any ideas what's wrong and how to fix it? TIA, Hi Pete! Wow that is weird. An external monitor I can see this happening. Internal monitor, I never saw this. Any chance you can hook it up to an external? I suspect the same result. Although you may adjust it to display correctly. In either case, I believe you have to take it in for service. It is still under warrantee, right? I haven't as yet hooked it up to an external monitor, but will do later today when I have chance, and let you know what I find. Unfortunately, it's not in warranty so whatever it is, I'll have to pay for the repair if it's a hardware fault ( Thanks Bill Bill (and anyone else who's interested, of course), further to the above I've now hooked it up to an external monitor and the display on the external monitor is perfect. Photo at http://s137.photobucket.com/albums/q...t=laptop2a.jpg Don't know what that means though ( Hi Pete! Well now we know. I doubt this laptop has a separate video card and it is all on the motherboard. If somebody knows differently, please let us know. Wait... I found a picture of the motherboard... http://www.notebooksolutions.ca/zc/i...oducts_id=2775 Nope, it looks like it is on the motherboard to me. Well after the external video jack (which is analog video), it gets converted to digital and fed to the LCD display. So we are talking about the motherboard, ribbon cable, and the LCD display itself. And I don't think it could be the last two, but I could be wrong. So that is what I think anyway. -- Bill Asus EEE PC 701G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC Windows XP SP2 |
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BillW50 wrote:
In , Pete Zahut typed on Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:22:24 +0100: Pete Zahut wrote: BillW50 wrote: In , Pete Zahut typed on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:42:46 +0100: Got the above laptop and it's just developed a problem with the screen/display - there's a 65mm column at the right-hand side of the display that's gone dark. Applications open up properly and you can see the whole width of the app, but it doesn't go the whole width of the screen - sort of full display but not full screen if you see what I mean. Also, don't know if it's relevant or not but the taskbar at the bottom seems to be twice as tall as normal and isn't drag-able back to it's usual size - cursor also distorts in this area. I'm not explaining it very well, so have a look at this photo: http://s137.photobucket.com/albums/q...nt=laptop1.jpg At first I thought it may be a display driver issue but I've uninstalled and reinstalled without success. I've also used a program called #1-TuffTest Pro (http://www.tufftest.com/ttp01.htm) that is self-booting, operating system independent and never goes anywhere near Windows, but shows the same results, so I would say that that rules out any Windows driver issues. Picture of that test he http://s137.photobucket.com/albums/q...nt=laptop2.jpg Any ideas what's wrong and how to fix it? TIA, Hi Pete! Wow that is weird. An external monitor I can see this happening. Internal monitor, I never saw this. Any chance you can hook it up to an external? I suspect the same result. Although you may adjust it to display correctly. In either case, I believe you have to take it in for service. It is still under warrantee, right? I haven't as yet hooked it up to an external monitor, but will do later today when I have chance, and let you know what I find. Unfortunately, it's not in warranty so whatever it is, I'll have to pay for the repair if it's a hardware fault ( Thanks Bill Bill (and anyone else who's interested, of course), further to the above I've now hooked it up to an external monitor and the display on the external monitor is perfect. Photo at http://s137.photobucket.com/albums/q...t=laptop2a.jpg Don't know what that means though ( Hi Pete! Well now we know. I doubt this laptop has a separate video card and it is all on the motherboard. If somebody knows differently, please let us know. Wait... I found a picture of the motherboard... http://www.notebooksolutions.ca/zc/i...oducts_id=2775 Nope, it looks like it is on the motherboard to me. Well after the external video jack (which is analog video), it gets converted to digital and fed to the LCD display. So we are talking about the motherboard, ribbon cable, and the LCD display itself. And I don't think it could be the last two, but I could be wrong. So that is what I think anyway. Thanks for that Bill, looks like a very expensive repair that isn't really worth it - not yet anyway. Cheers my friend, Pete |
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Pete Zahut typed on Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:01:12 +0100: BillW50 wrote: In , Pete Zahut typed on Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:22:24 +0100: Pete Zahut wrote: BillW50 wrote: In , Pete Zahut typed on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:42:46 +0100: Got the above laptop and it's just developed a problem with the screen/display - there's a 65mm column at the right-hand side of the display that's gone dark. Applications open up properly and you can see the whole width of the app, but it doesn't go the whole width of the screen - sort of full display but not full screen if you see what I mean. Also, don't know if it's relevant or not but the taskbar at the bottom seems to be twice as tall as normal and isn't drag-able back to it's usual size - cursor also distorts in this area. I'm not explaining it very well, so have a look at this photo: http://s137.photobucket.com/albums/q...nt=laptop1.jpg At first I thought it may be a display driver issue but I've uninstalled and reinstalled without success. I've also used a program called #1-TuffTest Pro (http://www.tufftest.com/ttp01.htm) that is self-booting, operating system independent and never goes anywhere near Windows, but shows the same results, so I would say that that rules out any Windows driver issues. Picture of that test he http://s137.photobucket.com/albums/q...nt=laptop2.jpg Any ideas what's wrong and how to fix it? TIA, Hi Pete! Wow that is weird. An external monitor I can see this happening. Internal monitor, I never saw this. Any chance you can hook it up to an external? I suspect the same result. Although you may adjust it to display correctly. In either case, I believe you have to take it in for service. It is still under warrantee, right? I haven't as yet hooked it up to an external monitor, but will do later today when I have chance, and let you know what I find. Unfortunately, it's not in warranty so whatever it is, I'll have to pay for the repair if it's a hardware fault ( Thanks Bill Bill (and anyone else who's interested, of course), further to the above I've now hooked it up to an external monitor and the display on the external monitor is perfect. Photo at http://s137.photobucket.com/albums/q...t=laptop2a.jpg Don't know what that means though ( Hi Pete! Well now we know. I doubt this laptop has a separate video card and it is all on the motherboard. If somebody knows differently, please let us know. Wait... I found a picture of the motherboard... http://www.notebooksolutions.ca/zc/i...oducts_id=2775 Nope, it looks like it is on the motherboard to me. Well after the external video jack (which is analog video), it gets converted to digital and fed to the LCD display. So we are talking about the motherboard, ribbon cable, and the LCD display itself. And I don't think it could be the last two, but I could be wrong. So that is what I think anyway. Thanks for that Bill, looks like a very expensive repair that isn't really worth it - not yet anyway. Cheers my friend, Pete Hi Pete! Well another ribbon cable should be cheap enough to try. I don't think it is that though. If it were me, I would find one on eBay working or with some other problem. Best if the other problem wasn't something wrong with the motherboard. That way you could swap parts until you find out which one of the three it was. I really think it is the motherboard though. I don't know what you want to do with it. But if you are not interested in it, I would sell it or something. As somebody can use it as is or with an external monitor. Or even fix it. grin -- Bill Asus EEE PC 701G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC Windows XP SP2 |
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BillW50 wrote:
In , Pete Zahut typed on Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:01:12 +0100: BillW50 wrote: In , Pete Zahut typed on Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:22:24 +0100: Pete Zahut wrote: BillW50 wrote: In , Pete Zahut typed on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:42:46 +0100: Got the above laptop and it's just developed a problem with the screen/display - there's a 65mm column at the right-hand side of the display that's gone dark. Applications open up properly and you can see the whole width of the app, but it doesn't go the whole width of the screen - sort of full display but not full screen if you see what I mean. Also, don't know if it's relevant or not but the taskbar at the bottom seems to be twice as tall as normal and isn't drag-able back to it's usual size - cursor also distorts in this area. I'm not explaining it very well, so have a look at this photo: http://s137.photobucket.com/albums/q...nt=laptop1.jpg At first I thought it may be a display driver issue but I've uninstalled and reinstalled without success. I've also used a program called #1-TuffTest Pro (http://www.tufftest.com/ttp01.htm) that is self-booting, operating system independent and never goes anywhere near Windows, but shows the same results, so I would say that that rules out any Windows driver issues. Picture of that test he http://s137.photobucket.com/albums/q...nt=laptop2.jpg Any ideas what's wrong and how to fix it? TIA, Hi Pete! Wow that is weird. An external monitor I can see this happening. Internal monitor, I never saw this. Any chance you can hook it up to an external? I suspect the same result. Although you may adjust it to display correctly. In either case, I believe you have to take it in for service. It is still under warrantee, right? I haven't as yet hooked it up to an external monitor, but will do later today when I have chance, and let you know what I find. Unfortunately, it's not in warranty so whatever it is, I'll have to pay for the repair if it's a hardware fault ( Thanks Bill Bill (and anyone else who's interested, of course), further to the above I've now hooked it up to an external monitor and the display on the external monitor is perfect. Photo at http://s137.photobucket.com/albums/q...t=laptop2a.jpg Don't know what that means though ( Hi Pete! Well now we know. I doubt this laptop has a separate video card and it is all on the motherboard. If somebody knows differently, please let us know. Wait... I found a picture of the motherboard... http://www.notebooksolutions.ca/zc/i...oducts_id=2775 Nope, it looks like it is on the motherboard to me. Well after the external video jack (which is analog video), it gets converted to digital and fed to the LCD display. So we are talking about the motherboard, ribbon cable, and the LCD display itself. And I don't think it could be the last two, but I could be wrong. So that is what I think anyway. Thanks for that Bill, looks like a very expensive repair that isn't really worth it - not yet anyway. Cheers my friend, Pete Hi Pete! Well another ribbon cable should be cheap enough to try. I don't think it is that though. If it were me, I would find one on eBay working or with some other problem. Best if the other problem wasn't something wrong with the motherboard. That way you could swap parts until you find out which one of the three it was. I really think it is the motherboard though. I don't know what you want to do with it. But if you are not interested in it, I would sell it or something. As somebody can use it as is or with an external monitor. Or even fix it. grin Oh I'll keep it, it's quite useable as it is, just annoying ) |
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