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    Screen goes black/pink/blue when unplugged

    Discussion in 'HP' started by daniela269, Aug 30, 2008.

  1. daniela269

    daniela269 Newbie

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    I have had this problem for a while and it's driving me nuts...

    Every time I unplugged my laptop after a couple of minutes the screen goes black/pink/blue or any other color and I have to restart to be able to see anything in my screen.

    I have this problem ONLY when I'm using my laptop unplugged, and if I use an alternative monitor or the TV with a s-video cord, I can see it, so I'm sure it is a screen problem.

    I sent the computer to HP while on warranty and of course they "didn't find any problem" but it keeps happening.

    I have a HP pavilion dv6000 series, with Windows Vista Home Premium.

    Any ideas? Cause what's the point of having a notebook if you're still stuck with the power cord all the time :mad:

    Thank you very much!
     
    daniela269, Aug 30, 2008
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  2. schoko

    schoko Custom User Title

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    have you tried different drivers for your graphics card ?

    somehow i can´t think of the screen as a source for such a problem.
     
    schoko, Aug 30, 2008
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  3. TwiztOG43

    TwiztOG43 Notebook Evangelist

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    i think you maybe qualified for this
    http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&cc=us&docname=c01087277&dlc=en

    because that happened to me, my screen would turn different colors, then a few weeks later my notebook stop recognizing the wireless card, then all of a sudden it would not boot, not even into the bios.
     
    TwiztOG43, Aug 30, 2008
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  4. brianstretch

    brianstretch Notebook Virtuoso

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    The notebook uses different backlight brightness settings for plugged and unplugged... try increasing the brightness while unplugged and see if it fixes itself. If it does, you have a bad LCD inverter and/or bad CCFL backlight, probably the backlight since a pinkish glow is indicative of that but a bad inverter can kill a backlight prematurely too. Backlights are a royal pain to replace, inverters aren't too bad.
     
    brianstretch, Aug 30, 2008
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