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    W860CU display malfunction?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Daniel Hahn, Jul 17, 2010.

  1. Daniel Hahn

    Daniel Hahn Notebook Evangelist

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    There seems to be something wrong with my display. Occasionally my display suddenly begins to "flicker" like mad and all I can do is restart the laptop by force. I made a video of it and uploaded it to YouTube.

    I've encountered this problem for the first time two weeks after I got the laptop. But then the problem didnt occur for almost 2 months. However, I had this problem a couple of times now during the last week.

    I don't think it has anything to do with drivers or whatever, since the problem was there basically from the start. I happens completely randomly, sometimes it happens during games, but it also happened when I was writing an E-Mail or just browsing the web. I also updated the bios, so I'm pretty sure it is some hardware malfunction.

    I don't recall any W860CU user having the same problem, does anybody have some idea what the problem could be? I'll contact my reseller as well.
     
  2. Neil@Kobalt

    Neil@Kobalt Company Representative

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    From the video it might be a loose/bad cable or connection around the hinge area from GPU to screen but I think there's a stronger chance that it is either an inverter or GPU issue. As you mentioned - best to contact your reseller seeing as it seems to be a hardware issue.