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« on: September 25, 2010, 01:55:39 AM » |
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Well, some chick which i'm so into (and I think she's not into me, anyway I'm gonna ask her out), asked me a favor to lend my laptop to her for a school presentation (so she connected it to a projector, blah blah). Continued using it for some more days, till she knocked my door, totally ashamed, asking for forgiveness... this is what mysteriously happened to my laptop   The screen won't fill correctly, is like the laptop thinks is a 12" display, as it won't fill correctly, those are not dead pixels... what could have happened?? I've never seen nothing like this before, is like the screen lost it's config or something Acer TravelMate WLMi 4200 series |
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« Last Edit: September 25, 2010, 02:21:27 AM by bidomo »
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thon0925
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« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2010, 11:09:36 AM » |
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That's weird. Considering the screen is messed up at boot time, I would set default options in the BIOS.
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bidomo
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« Reply #2 on: September 26, 2010, 03:52:19 AM » |
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totally weird.
disconnected battery, ram, and CMOS battery, will assemble again in a couple hours (gonna take some shuteye), and see what happens.
and of course, restore bios settings, which haven't tried yet.
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Arakon
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« Reply #3 on: September 26, 2010, 04:02:11 AM » |
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I've seen this happen, but in white rather than black.. it was a monitor that was hit hard in that area, the whole strip below where it was hit turned white. Only option was to throw it away.
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I do NOT give support by email, PM, ICQ or whatever. Anyone annoying me that way will have his balls removed. With a rusty butterknife. Slowly. And I'll enjoy doing it.
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bidomo
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« Reply #4 on: September 27, 2010, 01:38:17 PM » |
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I hope that's not the case...
I had to throw away some other screens which actually didn't show up properly, but this one looks like minimized, even the screen resolution is not that big
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thon0925
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« Reply #5 on: September 27, 2010, 03:38:05 PM » |
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The image on the screen looks scaled down, so I don't think pixels aren't damaged. If they were, you wouldn't be able to see the notification tray if it was in its normal spot.
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« Reply #6 on: September 27, 2010, 06:47:06 PM » |
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Reset bios settings.
Reseat cables from motherboard to screen.
Throw away?
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« Reply #7 on: September 27, 2010, 10:58:46 PM » |
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it's 100% software issue because you can see the "Phoenix" logo on the right side and there's nothing cropped. its just stretched.
since it's the startup logo screen it means it's not driver issue. try to plug it on external monitor and see it this issue continues. if it does this means that your screen is unharmed and the problem is from other part.
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bidomo
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« Reply #8 on: September 28, 2010, 02:26:50 AM » |
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tried that already...
There must be some kind of software adjustment, as you say, no dead pixels at all.
is like the image only needs to be stretched to fit all of the space on the lcd.
question is how.
can post more details about the display, will use them to ask the guy with the sea glasses, search for a replacement, and maybe, someone has info about that thing.
forgot to remove cmos battery...
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bidomo
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« Reply #9 on: October 05, 2010, 06:49:49 PM » |
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could this have something to do with the LCD driver been damaged?
Of course I mean, the physical driver controller, not the stuff loaded by any OS
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thon0925
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« Reply #10 on: October 05, 2010, 09:38:14 PM » |
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The screen image is scaled down at boot, before the drivers are even loaded, so it's not a driver issue. So you have tried resetting the BIOS with no results? You can also try updating the BIOS to see if it makes any difference.
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bidomo
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« Reply #11 on: October 06, 2010, 01:31:56 AM » |
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The screen image is scaled down at boot, before the drivers are even loaded, so it's not a driver issue. So you have tried resetting the BIOS with no results? You can also try updating the BIOS to see if it makes any difference.
I know, that's why I corrected my post above but seems I did it to late. Addition to the story... Results, some guy which we may call the "inopportune infamous gossip brother", used my display to check another laptop with elder LCD (mine is a digital I don't remember what else according to windows), and after that, my display was messed... information revealed by the "infamous father". This gorgeous girl is gonna make a carnal payment... of course I mean her lips are gonna pay, like 1000 besos So that's what I'm even more inclined it has something to do with the driver. |
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