PROBLEM: Blue vertical line on monitor

Hello all,

I have an issue with my monitor. First off, for about 6 months or so, I've noticed that on the left latch of my laptop where the monitor connects, there's a cosmetic problem where the latch is cracked. Just yesterday, I got a thin vertical blue line on the right side of my laptop. Since it's the opposite side of the crack in the chasis, I don't know if it's related.

Any ideas what to do? I read I could take off my keyboard then unplug, re plug in the ribbon, but I don't know how to take off the keyboard, nor do i know what the ribbon looks like.

Help please!

Thanks.

 

Have a look at this thread..might help.
As for dissambling your laptop, you may have to look for its service or repair manual....If you are not able to open the laptop without it..!!

 

To take off the keyboard, you'll have to do a lot of unscrewing... but it may be worth it to see if something jiggled loose and isn't quite connected...

ever seen the inside of a desktop? The "ribbon" is what connects a drive to the motherboard... it's not ribbon; it's a set of wires parallel to each other inside a piece of mostly flat, flexible rubbery plastic... the pins/connectors are on each side.

That's a decent first move, though, just be careful and don't do it on carpet unless you somehow ground yourself, which is always a good idea (just in case--I typically put my foot on my aluminum desktop case and am fine, but I'd hate to have you be the rare case where static mattered)... I would go ahead and carefully pull out and put back in just about all connecting wires... also push the RAM and other things in firmly since something not being in all the way could be putting weird pressure on the graphics chip area when it's assembled.

Other than that, it could be because of a crack anywhere in it, or it could be that your computer evolved from a past life that ended in the blue screen of death and this carried over. I'm guessing the first is more likely.

Good luck in getting it fixed. If you find that pressing (as in squeezing the front to the back, carefully) any part of the screen edge takes away the line, then you've definitely got a hardware issue... if that proves true and it's not under warranty, as bad as it sounds, a low-pressure binder clip and/or gorilla tape might make it last longer.

That all said, if it's under warranty, don't void it out messing around, but I'm guessing... it's not :/

Posting pics might help us understand what it looks like, if you are able.

 

Well, I get the blue screen a lot, randomly. I Don't know what the issue is, but I get the blue screen maybe once or twice a week and have to restart the computer. Don't know if that matters or is fixable.

 

Blue screen..?! You mean the system crashes..??

 

I had vertical lines on an old laptop, it was because i sprayed water on the LCD to clean it and it pearled and rolled down the screen and went behind the bezel at the bottom and shorted some of the circuit. The line was where the water infiltrated.

 

Yeah, that link angad mentioned should solve your problems. Usually it is just a loose ribbon cable connection. Simply reseating the cable usually fixes the stripe problem.
The blue screens are probably from something unrelated.
The next time it blue screens write down the error code and type it into google and you can find out from microsoft's site as to what it is related to.

K-TRON

 

I have had problems with two previous (used) Dell laptops of mine.
First the rightmost hinge begins to break, then the left side (the same side where the monitor cable is) gets a row of stuck pixels (usually blue, sometimes red), then the rightmost hinge breaks completely.

With the first one I opened it up and was able to get the screen to work better for a while, before the whole laptop literally fell apart.

With the second one I just ignored the blue lines because all of the other problems with the laptop were screaming "get a new computer!"

I would try to press the cable back into place, but be very careful with the cracked hinge/latch. Cracked hinges tend to lead to broken hinges which often causes major problems. With my Dells the hinge opposite the monitor cable hinge was the one to break, having the hinge with the monitor cable in it break sounds like it could cause more severe problems more quickly.

 

yeah, my system crashes. Says it needs to dump something completely before i can restart.