Thread: Vertical line on my Laptop Screen

Maybe the screen / frame got slightly bent , perhaps from opening the laptop from the corner .
try gently bending it back straight .

disclaimer
if it snaps right in half , well , it's one less thing to worry about ...

I've seen that You Tube, it don't work...LOL

Here's a screen shot



The funny thing is it doesn't show on a screen shot ???????

Originally Posted by Thormaturge

Is it definitely the screen or could it be the computer?

My first reaction would be to hook up the computer to a PC screen in order to see whether the problem really is with the screen.

It may be a computer component (graphics card?) that needs replacing.

You could do what Sony did when I took my ten day old laptop back with a similar problem. Backdate an insurance policy and then claim on it.

You can see from the screen shot it's not the graphics card and I said in the OP I have hooked it up to the TV and that's OK

From my limited experience, I think it is the connector which goes between the computer and screen. Either that or similar.....the screen AFTER the connector goes into it.
And all the tests you have done so far point to it being that.....I think.
Something like this happened to my friend's Hewlett Packard and it developed more and more lines. He eventually hooked it up to an external screen.

Originally Posted by boloa

The funny thing is it doesn't show on a screen shot ?????

That's because a screen shot doesn't actually take a pic of the screen, it just grabs info on what is being sent to the screen.

Hopefully it is a connector issue as LD says, that should be a cheaper fix than replacing the screen.

The line seems to be fading

The wife said when I told her about the problem....." the line wasn't their when I cleaned your Laptop screen with WHIZ glass cleaner before you got up "



I said" Did any cleaner run into the bottom of the screen casing "

" Maybe Honey,I'm not sure " she replied

Lets see if it dries out completely by tomorrow and is back to normal

shes pressed to hard on the screen, and now it is popping back into place. You are lucky - tell her to leave it the frick alone in future lol

Originally Posted by pseudolus

You are lucky

Big Ol' Lucky Ol' Al ....

Sorry boloa, I went off and did something else after reading your post.

After seeing my secretary about to descend upon her new laptop with equipment more at home in an elephant enclosure I purchased some of these:

The yellow Vertical line has now gone,and I'm sure the wife wont be cleaning my laptop any-more