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    Help! What's up with my screen?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by SupaSubaru, Jan 10, 2010.

  1. SupaSubaru

    SupaSubaru Newbie

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    The wallpaper is suppose to look like this:

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    This is on a Lenovo S10, about 2 years old. It was great for a year, then the screen started to do this if I open the screen to its max open-ness. some/most of the blacks are shown as a weird red color. It slowly started to get worse, where it would do this even if i don't open it to the max, to the point that it could only open to approx 80 degrees before going messy. Now it has gotten to the point where it just stays this way, even if i only open it 30 degrees.

    I have taken the whole laptop apart, and checked the connections, they SEEM ok, although I could have missed something. If it matters, I have been using an extended battery I bought off ebay ever since a month after purchase.

    Can someone tell me what's wrong with the laptop please?

    Thanks in advance!
     
    SupaSubaru, Jan 10, 2010
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  2. cn_habs

    cn_habs Notebook Deity

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    Have you been playing some old games on it? I know my T61 sorta look like that temporarily after playing AOE2. Why didn't you try to look for solutions sooner? Is it still under warranty?
     
    cn_habs, Jan 10, 2010
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  3. MidnightSun

    MidnightSun Emodicon

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    Hmmm. This doesn't look like a hardware issue. Try changing the wallpaper and then changing back.
     
    MidnightSun, Jan 10, 2010
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    Lithus NBR Janitor

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    All the icons on the desktop look fine, and the XP taskbar is fine, so I would also question the wallpaper.
     
    Lithus, Jan 10, 2010
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  5. not.sure

    not.sure Notebook Evangelist

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    Probably the S10 is jealous because that thing on the wallpaper is faster than it.
     
    not.sure, Jan 10, 2010
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    Needmore4less Notebook aficionado

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    hahaha

    Sorry, I wanted to laugh, couldn't help it.
     
    Needmore4less, Jan 10, 2010
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  7. SupaSubaru

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    It's not the wallpaper, because even the blacks on the windows xp startup loading screen and windows (e.g. firefox, ie explorer, autocad) show up as weird reds as well

    also, i didn't look for a solution sooner because when it first happened, it was already past its warranty (it was only 30 or 90 days). and it wasn't all that bad until recently.

    For those that are wondering, I got it from Canada Computers, not refurb.
     
    SupaSubaru, Jan 10, 2010
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  8. moral hazard

    moral hazard Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    What GPU does it have?
     
    moral hazard, Jan 10, 2010
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  9. lead_org

    lead_org Purveyor of Truth

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    did you change the gamma on the video card setting?
     
    lead_org, Jan 10, 2010
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  10. darkwish

    darkwish Notebook Enthusiast

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    Since tilting the LCD affects it, I'd say the LCD cable between the mainboard and LCD is bad, or getting pinched.
     
    darkwish, Jan 10, 2010
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  11. SupaSubaru

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    I think I have Mobile Intel(R) 945 Express Chipset Family
    I didn't change any of the settings

    I also checked the cables when i took it apart, and i THINK the connections are ok.

    could it be an internally broken cable or even the lcd panel? do I have to replace one of them? both? is there a way for me to test what exactly is wrong?
     
    SupaSubaru, Jan 10, 2010
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