S96S LCD issues

Hi all,

For about a month now, I've been having problems with my LCD panel. I can hook it up to an external monitor no problem, but when I turn on the laptop, I can expect a variety of things:

a) it might work beautifully (about 5% of the time);
b) everything will be weird colours (i.e. black will be bright RGB Green), everything will also appear a little out of alignment;
c) the screen will be black with a band of coloured stripes, kind of like how a busted LCD looks...
d) there will be 3 horizontal bands of grey shades.

Sometimes, when I turn it on, the display will appear fine, but if I leave and come back, it will look all mangy.

I bought and replaced the VGA cable to no avail.

I would really like to be able to fix the current panel, as it has proven that it is capable of working. Also, because I don't have a lot of money to replace the panel, and I have a friend who's handy with the solder.

Any help, or points in the right direction, would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

 

Do you mean the internal LCD signal cable, also known as coax cable, that goes from the motherboard to the LCD? If yes, then that would have been my first guess, as well...

If replacing that didn't do the trick, the problem may either be with the LCD itself, with the motherboard, or with the connection of the cable to either side (LCD or MB).

Since I believe replacing connectors is very difficult, all of these spell financial trouble: LCD or MB replacement...

You could also try replacing the inverter cable as a wild, longshot, but the inverter cable going bad does NOT cause this type of problems...

 

Yes, the internal LCD cable, looks like this:

(sorry, webcam.)

Thanks for your input.

 

Yeah... that's what I suspected. I have nothing more to add to what I said earlier I'm afraid.