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    Vaio Z screen spill

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by miraclefilms, Jul 4, 2010.

  1. miraclefilms

    miraclefilms Newbie

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    This thing appeared on my screen, and I have no idea how.

    I'm guessing a Led exploded, but now I'm worried the blue "ink" is spreading.

    Can someone give me info on what it is? What's it called? how could it have happened? Guaranty would cover it? Can it be fixed?
     

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  2. T_Sous

    T_Sous Notebook Geek

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    looks like a leak from the liquid inside the LCD, it could have happened if you dropped it, or something happened to make the inside crack. Sadly there's no easy fix for it and needs to be replaced.. Are you still under warranty?
     
  3. beaups

    beaups New Jack Hustler

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    Cracked LCD. Good luck getting warranty repair....
     
  4. H.A.L. 9000

    H.A.L. 9000 Occam's Chainsaw

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    Looks like dead pixels at the top and all the blue parts are stuck pixels. Your LCD (from that dim picture) doesn't look cracked though. Warranty will cover that, as that isn't caused by you likely. That is usually the sign of a bad LCD connector cable, an LCD connector cable that isn't seated properly, or you just have an LCD panel that's going bad.
     
  5. beaups

    beaups New Jack Hustler

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    Looks like internal rupture to me.
     
  6. paradyne

    paradyne Notebook Enthusiast

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    Is it visible in the BIOS setting screen as well?
     
  7. H.A.L. 9000

    H.A.L. 9000 Occam's Chainsaw

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    This is what a "cracked LCD" usually looks like...
    [​IMG]

    I've had this issue on SEVERAL past iPhones, and they all had faulty LCD panels. I'd either have a line or group of stuck/dead pixels, or a combination of both.
     
  8. beaups

    beaups New Jack Hustler

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    The black spot is the rupture. The blue lines below are caused by that. Very similar to the pic you posted just on a smaller scale.
     
  9. H.A.L. 9000

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    But you're not noticing how uniform and perfect the edges of black are in the OP's picture. They're dead pixels, not ruptured or cracked, promise. Also, 99.9% of the time, if there's ruptured sections of pixels, there'll be cracked glass, and there is no cracked glass in that picture. The glass panel in notebook LCD's are so thin, that if it was cracked you'd see something like the above from the spider effect on thin glass breakage.