Ideapad Y530 LED screen has weird vertical lines

Has anyone else ever had that? Just bought an Ideapad Y530 with Intel GMA4500 graphics, and there are these strange vertical lines running through.
Actually, the best way to describe it would be, is that the picture looks like it's been projected onto a cloth, a cloth with vertical fibers more visible.

They are more noticeable on some colors. They seem to stick out more on green, gray and blue colors.
I thought it may have been an Intel driver issue, but trying different drivers didn't help. Even reinstalling windows didn't help.

I think it is a hardware issue, because, while installing windows, when non of the graphics drivers were loaded, the screen still had those strange lines.
Could it be perfectly normal thing for a LED screen, maybe - that you can see the individual LEDs? If so, then boy, that LED screen technology is a total failure.
So, all you LED screen owners here, how's your screen? Is it just as good or better than your LCDs have been?

 

This sounds like a hardware issue to me - I would contact Lenovo support for a replacement.

 

Have you tried plugging in an external monitor to see if its the GPU or display acting up?

 

Good idea. I'm gonna do that right now. It should tell me whether it's the graphics card or the screen that's bad.

 

Well, i just hooked my desktop LCD monitor to the laptop, and no lines whatsoever. I guess it's the screen. What i'm actually afraid of is that that could be normal for the LED screens, and when Lenovo receives it, they won't think that's a defect, and when they do send me a new one, then that will be the same way. But i'll contact them anyway, just to be sure.

Wonder if they made Y530s with LCD screens as well. Wish they'd just send me one of those, even though i do love the battery time that this thing gets.

 

I don't think that is a problem with LED screens in general - I have seen several LED screens (although I admit I haven't used them for extended periods) and have never seen vertical lines as if the picture was projected on a cloth.

Lenovo should send you a replacement, with a fixed screen.

 

Ok, i managed to take a photo of my screen. It is especially noticable on green.
Of course, it doesn't look as bad as it does on a picture, cause it's a close-up, but you can clearly see the vertical running lines.
Don't know how to embed pics into a forum, but here's a link to the pic:
http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/3821/y530me7.jpg

 

It's funny how it is. When i showed it to you, you wouldn't necessarily see it right away, but then it just hits you......on certain parts of the screen more than on others.

 

So, Lenovo will send me a replacement without trying to fix this one first, like other manufacturers?

 

They won't send you a replacement unit. They will almost certainly repair it first, which sounds like a fairly simple affair. Laptops don't grow on trees, so they can't issue replacement units for such problems unless major complications arise.

 

Well, i called Lenovo today and they want me to send the old one back and give me a refund. No talk of trying to fit it, or sending a replacement unit.

But that's alright, cause i went to a store today that sells Ideapads. They had three on display - two Y430s, and one Y530. And sure enough, the Y530 had the exact vertical lines, while as on the two smaller Y430s they were barely noticeable. All other brands i checked, the screens were perfect. I'm sorry to say this, but Lenovo laptops had the worst screens there.

Don't think that i am a perfectionist and demanding too much, cause i'm not. I just want the laptop to have a screen that doesn't draw that much attention to it, as the one i ordered does.

 

Weird. So it's a Y530 LED screen general issue it seems.

 

Either that, or it came from a bad batch of screens. Most computer manufacturers don't actually make their own screens. Instead they buy them from companies that do - like LG, Samsung, Philips, etc. And their quality is not always the same.