[Acer Aspire 1694Wlmi] Screen Problem!

Hello, I recently purchased an Acer Aspire 1694 and I'm totally in love with it. However, there seems to be something weird going on with my screen. Every once in a while, the screen suddenly starts displaying wiggling colors and weird patterns. It's kind of hard to describe, but it looks like when you set your colors to 16 or 256 colors, but then it wiggles. Even the windows startup screen and the acer bios startup screen have that. Sometimes it goes away after a while, but sometimes it stays that way for a long time.

I read something about the wiggle being a 5hz wiggle which is caused by having your notebook in sleep mode, and you screen isn't turned off but turned down to 5hz mode. If it stays in that mode too long it 'remembers' the 5hz and displays a 5hz color wiggle.

However, I almost never use sleep mode, and it comes up at other times too like when I'm already working for about an hour, it suddenly starts.

I was wondering if this was a known problem and if something can be done about this, because I find it very strange.

Greetings, Mark.

 

have you tried tilting your display and see if it screws up? my friend had a travelmate 8103 and it did the same thing. it was broken.

 

I did try that indeed, because my old notebook had that problem. (that's the reason I bought this new one). The screen of that one was just half black and when I pushed real hard at the top left corner of my screen it would work properly.

That's not the problem here though, whatever the angle is or wherever I push nothing changes. I'm not sure if it's hardware or software problem. I have the ATI Mobility Radeon X700 256mb, with the Omega drivers (installed them after this problem first occured, but it didn't change anything).