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    Line of pixels down the screen

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by Danja, Sep 20, 2008.

  1. Danja

    Danja Notebook Evangelist

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    I have a line of flickering green and purple pixels going down the screen of my laptop. The line seems to be only one or 2 pixels wide and is interrupted in places; I'd say about 30% of the vertical screen line is affected by the flickering pixels. They only show up on certain shades of grey and blue; I can browse nbr and hotmail without noticing it but if I view this image on full screen, I see the line right in the middle of where the elephant has the first chunk out of its ear. I tried restarting the computer to let the gpu cool as well as several pixel unstickers and nothing worked. Do you guys think the only remaining option is to send it in to Gateways?
     
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    ChevyNovaLN Notebook Consultant

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    That wouldn't be a software/driver issue. Call Gateway.
     
    ChevyNovaLN, Sep 20, 2008
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  3. N00d13s

    N00d13s is too legit to quit!

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    yeah, either the lcd is going or it's the connector (which i doubt cause it would be worse than that, and the connector is on pretty tight)

    it probably could be a software thing(virus, or something), but again that is highly doubted.
     
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    Lum-X Notebook Evangelist

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    can you make e picture of it and show it to us so that we can advise you more if nessery
     
    Lum-X, Sep 20, 2008
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    imo either the cable, the screen or the gpu... warranty time..
     
    zfactor, Sep 20, 2008
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    Danja Notebook Evangelist

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    Argh I was afraid of that. I'm in college and don't want to go without my computer. I guess I can wait until fall break. There's a small computer shop by campus; I may take it there and ask for an opinion before shipping it to GW. I'll attach 2 pictures. The shiny straight line isn't a laser blowing up the planet; it's the aforementioned line of pixels.
     

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  7. Danja

    Danja Notebook Evangelist

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    Could someone explain to my why the line shows up at one screen but not at another? The pixels have to be able to change color... if I change my background to some pictures, the distortion gets smaller or disappears entirely in spite of the picture not having the same green/purple color as the malfunctioning pixels. Does anyone know enough about LCD screens to explain this?
     
    Danja, Sep 21, 2008
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