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    Dipslay turns white on DV6286ea!

    Discussion in 'HP' started by Marengo, Jun 18, 2007.

  1. Marengo

    Marengo Notebook Consultant

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    Hello everybody,
    I have a serious problem on my 3 month old HP DV 6286ea.
    Yesterday while I was checking my emails the screen has gone totally white! The computer didn’t crash just the screen gone white. I had to press the power button to log off and enter the welcome/change user vista screen. But when I logged in again the problem appeared again after a few minutes. I tried many times but the problem remains
    The only way possible to bring the screen back is rebooting the computer. But the problem appears again after a few minutes. Sometimes the display goes white even while booting! The boot process completes ok (I can hear the hdd loading and the vista welcome sound) just the screen goes white.

    Do you have any idea what may cause the problem?
    Does anybody else have this problem?

    Please help me! I just don’t know what to do. I would like to know if there is any solution before sending back the notebook to HP.

    Thanks
    Marengo
     
    Marengo, Jun 18, 2007
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    Marengo Notebook Consultant

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    Searching on google, I have found other people with the same(?) problem on some old HP notebooks.

    One guy seems to have found that the problem lies in the HP connector design of the screen. It allows the connectors to move slighly and therefore the contact oxidates at the connectors. That is also why the display sometimes works, and sometimes not.
    He even found a solution that seems to work and helped a lot of people with the same problem.Please read this link:

    http://www-clmc.usc.edu/~jrpeters/pm...-screenProblem

    What do you think?Do I have the same problem or is it something else?
     
    Marengo, Jun 18, 2007
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