I have a HP G60-635DX Notebook The screen keeps messing up. Some times I can stop it by adjusting the display other times it stops if I let it sit but I do not know why it dose it or how to stop it. Please help
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Using a linux bootdisc with ClamAv on to scan for viruses wouldn't do any harm (it's not necessarily malware but some viruses can screw with the screen like that).
In deed you might get a taste for linux (you can duel boot Windows with Ubuntu and get the best of both worlds).
It may just be a dodgy video driver.
Try hooking up another monitor to the vga port. If it keeps doing that, your video card is fried, if it doesn't it's the notebook's display.
I'm not an expert, this is just my two cents based on experience: I had an Acer notebook fail on me twice because of a factory problem with the main board. Turns out it couldn't stand high temperatures, and by high I mean above the freezing point of water.
Thanks for the info. I just hope I do not fry the other monitor as that would be another expense. Is it possible there is a bad connection between where the laptop folds down?
I have scanned with Norton Internet Security and I only found tracking cookies. I deleted them.
The laptop is not currently having the problem but if it happens again I will try plugging it in to another monitor.
red5-626 said:
I just hope I do not fry the other monitor as that would be another expense.
IMHO, not very likely.
Is it possible there is a bad connection between where the laptop folds down?
That's a big possibility. In fact, I have an old HP Pavillion laptop that has two coloured vertical lines on the right side of the screen. I'm assuming these are dead rows of pixels. I was able to trace the cause in my careless use of the screen itself, I used to open it too much, to a point where it should've stopped, it was almost 180° relative to the laptop! I first noticed one line appear, thought nothing of it. The other one appeared, and after that I stopped spreading that poor thing, and no more lines have appeared.
Leonardo has the right idea. Try another monitor to see if it is the screen or the video card. I see no possible way your laptop could damage any external monitor you connect to it.
If the flickering reacts to moving the screen around or bumping it, then it may be a lose connection. If you are mechanically inclined, and the thing isn't under warranty anymore, you could take it apart far enough to find the connector for the screen and see if it is seated right. Laptops are kind of like onions when you take them apart, there is layer after layer of pieces you have to unscrew and remove to get to the next layer of pieces to unscrew and remove. Fortunately, the place where the screen connects is usually one of the top layers.
However, if you have doubts about your ability to take it apart or put it back together, I wouldn't mess with it. My old HP laptop (can't remember the model) had some horizontal lines that would flicker throughout the screen. When I opened or closed the screen this flickering would get worse, sometimes just tapping the back of the lid or jolting the thing would cause the flicker to start, which led me to believe it was a lose connection. Taking it apart, unfastening the ribbon that connected the screen to the motherboard, then reconnecting it fixed the problem for me.
Thanks again.
The screen is stable now but if it happens again I will try the monitor thing.
If necessary I will try to get it to geek squad but that’s out of town, so I am trying to go want I can my self.
red5-626 said:
Thanks for the info.
I have scanned with Norton Internet Security and I only found tracking cookies. I deleted them.
The laptop is not currently having the problem but if it happens again I will try plugging it in to another monitor.I just hope I do not fry the other monitor as that would be another expense.
Is it possible there is a bad connection between where the laptop folds down?
Stop shouting at me!
He isn't shouting he is boldly going.
Oh Sorry when I copy paste from word, weird stuff happens.
It seems that all laptop manufacturers go through bad patches; HP's laptop build quality has been crap in recent years.
If you want to check this, go on to eBay and search laptops by brand. Filter by "condition: used" and then "condition: for parts or not working" and make a note of the ratio. Last time I looked at this HP and Acer were the worst, Dell and Toshiba had better reliability.
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It's probably the connection in the screen. I have a similar laptop, had to replace a broken screen. It's really easy and reletively cheap ($40?). I would follow the directions you can find to replace the screen, but just make sure everything is tight/not bent or broken.
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Ok I have discovered too new things.
1 When I plug in another monitor the other
Monitor works fine.
2 this seems to happen if 1 I have my laptop
powered off for 24 hours.
Or 2 I let my battery get low.