E1705 Display Problems...

Hi, I'm really hoping someone can help me with this...

A couple of weeks ago my laptop (E1705) starting having problems with the display. It's kind of hard to explain...the images are extremely distorted and markings will appear all over the screen. It will flicker on and off at a slow rate and sometimes just go completely blank. Like I said, it's hard to explain. I tried system restore but that didn't work. I ended up re-formatting my hard drive and reinstalling windows. Everything worked fine for about a week, but then the problem started up again. I've reinstalled the video drivers, I updated my BIOS but that didn't really work. I reverted back to the old BIOS. The problem seems to come and go, it's working fine at the moment. I'm not really sure what else to try or what the problem is. Maybe my video card (nVidia GeForce 7800) is going bad? I really don't know a lot about computers, lol, so I'm pretty lost at this point. My computer is out of warranty and I haven't contacted Dell because I have found their customer support to really *suck* in the past.

Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance!

Sara

 

I don't know anything specific about your problem but I'd venture to suspect that you may have some hardware problem with your screen. I can't think of any reliable way to diagnose it though. Do you feel what you're observing could be accounted for by a dying backlight? Does it affect the whole screen surface "synchroneously", at the same time? Or does it suffer "by areas"? Post further observations, maybe someone more knowledgeable than me could shed some (back)light...

 

Thanks for your response. I ended up calling Dell Support and they said my video card is bad, which is what I was suspecting. *sigh*

 

Ooo. That sucks. Hopefully you can find a new one or get the problem fixed cheaply..