Vertical Line on my Toshiba Satelite (1900-303) laptop

Hi,

I am having a problem with my Toshiba Satelitte Laptop
(S1900-303). Sometimes there is a faint vertical line on left hand
side of the screen.It is not there always. It comes from no where,
sometimes stays there for a day or two, then disappears by itself.Then
again shows up after a few days. I did sent my laptop to the Toshiba
repair centre, but they send it back saying they could not find any
fault. They could not even see any vertical line.

This laptop model has a BIOS update and I have not yet applied it.
I am little afraid to do a BIOS update. Can this problem be because of
not doing the BIOS update.

Laptop is still under warranty (I feel myself lucky that I bought
an extended warranty when the standard warrantly expired earlier this
year). But since this problem is occuring only intermittently, I do
not know how to show Thoshiba the fault.

Any help/advice would be most appreciated

Regards,
Priyesh

On 8 Apr 2004 07:22:25 -0700,
(Priyesh) wrote:

Hi,

I am having a problem with my Toshiba Satelitte Laptop
(S1900-303). Sometimes there is a faint vertical line on left hand
side of the screen.It is not there always. It comes from no where,
sometimes stays there for a day or two, then disappears by itself.Then
again shows up after a few days. I did sent my laptop to the Toshiba
repair centre, but they send it back saying they could not find any
fault. They could not even see any vertical line.

This laptop model has a BIOS update and I have not yet applied it.
I am little afraid to do a BIOS update. Can this problem be because of
not doing the BIOS update.

No, if it worked previously it certainly isn't due to the bios, and
regardless, that's not the type of problem that would be caused by any
bios bug/issue. Sounds like a fault in the screen itself.

Even so, from your account it's not affecting the stabily of the machine,
that should not be an isse if you wanted to update the bios anyway for
some other reason.


Laptop is still under warranty (I feel myself lucky that I bought
an extended warranty when the standard warrantly expired earlier this
year). But since this problem is occuring only intermittently, I do
not know how to show Thoshiba the fault.

Take a good picture of it?
Tell them it's intermittent and inquire how to report or prove the
problem.