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| Thread ID: 28485 | 2002-12-21 04:19:00 | Display on a Laptop Screen with purple and fluro-green is not a good look! | Chilling_Silence (9) | Press F1 |
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| 107910 | 2002-12-21 04:19:00 | Ive been given an old Dell Lattitude 266Mhz laptop. The screen can do a res of 1024x768 at 24bit. After using it (Sometimes for upto 20 mins, sometimes it starts on boot), it'll have little parts of the screen displaying purple, bright yellow, or a fluro-green. usually when I hit FN + F1 to get the BIOS, it'll fix itself for a few mins, or if I close the screen for a few seconds, 10 seconds will usually reset it for an extra 4 or so mins, but sometimes nothing seems to get rid of it, whether its on power or batteries. Any idea what might be causing it and/or how I could stop it? Cheers Chilling_Silence |
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| 107911 | 2002-12-22 03:07:00 | When being displayed thru an external monitor, it has no odd display... Just thought Id mention that. | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 107912 | 2002-12-22 09:58:00 | Pleeeeease People, Anybody have any ideas? It seems to go down in lines in some portions where it actually hapens. Maybe I should try and take a screen shot with my webcam of what's happening to see if anybody's seen anything like it before. Switching resolutions only worsens it! |
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| 107913 | 2002-12-22 21:43:00 | The only thing I can think of may be magnetic interference from speakers or some such things perhaps? | simonc (2694) | ||
| 107914 | 2002-12-22 21:52:00 | Upon further thought...Perhaps one of the internal speakers are faulty...this would make the magnetic interference theory work.... The fact that when you go to a bios screen, it goes away (I presume the bios screen is B & W) would point to magnetic interference.. |
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| 107915 | 2002-12-22 22:23:00 | LCD displays are not sensitive to magnetic interference. I would say your display is croaking. Sounds like its either got matrix driver hardware breaking down or the display itself is starting to fail. |
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| 107916 | 2002-12-23 21:33:00 | > > I would say your display is croaking. Sounds like its > either got matrix driver hardware breaking down or > the display itself is starting to fail. Okay, it goes like this: I was playing around with it last night after looking into what had been said about the display starting to croak, and noticed that certain part were always mutated. I usually use WMP 6.4 (Win2K and 98 Standard) and I noticed that the blue bar along the top of all windows ha certain parts that were fuzzy, by the text. I then noticed that in a still image, only certain shades of colors were mutated, and because the picture was about 3 screen widths/heights, when I scrolled the image, the few small parts that were fuzzy also moved with the screen-scrolling! I then installed WinAmp to play some of the music (WMP 6 doesnt have a playlist editor) and noticed that the text was all warped in the main window where it displays the song title. I switched to a metallic skin that Ive made and it disappeared. After looking into it a fair bit, I realise that its probably the driver, so Im off to find a new driver for a MagicGraph 128XVD 48K Video Bios for a 266Mhz Dell Latitude. Anybody else seen/heard of this video card. I downloaded a 98 driver, and it still did the same, but it wasnt from the dell site! Im off to dell, but are they likely to help me out if I phone up their help/support desk?! Cheers Chilling_Silence |
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| 107917 | 2002-12-23 21:57:00 | Well, That sucks... No driver update from Dell! I guess its off to google to see what I can find. Should I phone Dell and see what they say? |
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