How to fix faulty connector on LCD for MSI GT60/16F3?

I have an MSI laptop that I bought as a whitebook and threw in a CPU, RAM, HD, etc. It's the equivalent of a GT60 body. Intel i7 quad CPU, 20GB RAM, SSD, yada yada... it's been awesome, especially with the 970M that powers my games and Adobe CC.

However, there's one problem I'd like to see if I can fix: the weak LCD connector.

One day I traveled with this laptop... not unusual. I usually throw it into a backpack to carry for trips or transport and it's usually not fussy. However, after a trip for the Army where I happened to put this laptop in with some clothes, I took it out to use it only to see what looked like a feathered white rounded transparent rectangle over the overall image. (See Image A.) I figured it was something with the connection to the LCD, as the image would either be fixed, go away completely (to black), or return to what it was if I put pressure slightly to the left of the center of the bottom of the LCD. I decided to look a little further into it and took off the bezel and the LCD itself to look at the cable (Image C) and the connector (Image B) behind the LCD. I could not see any visible damage or anything obvious as to why this was giving me grief. No cable cinch, no damage to the connector, nothing. Tried disconnecting, reconnecting... nothing. The only thing I could think of that "damaged" this was that I may have packed my clothes in tightly with this laptop, which has a plastic shell that may have flexed with the pressure and "damaged" the cable.

I being the cheap bum I am lived with this for a while until I finally threw down for a new LCD LVDS cable... I wasn't able to live with a full HD LCD and not be able to play my games or work with my photography with that ugly white rectangle. Got it for $20, replaced it... no difference, so troubleshooting ruled that out. Now I was stuck with the LCD being bad, namely this stupid connector (Image B). Tried to look up a way to replace just this part or fix it but nothing... so I ended up researching and buying the LCD itself, luckily, for about $60 and not the $200 I expected. Replaced the LCD and holy crap, everything was good again. Loved it... I'm a happy camper.

Fast-forward not even 3 months. I recently traveled to Europe for, again, the Army, and put this laptop into a Pelican case along with a bunch of other stuff. You guessed it... although it was in a Pelican case with nice, soft foam, I'm guessing it was packed a wee bit tightly, and I'm guessing the pressure flexed the shell which did something to the connector. I arrived in Europe and for 3 weeks, had to take off the bezel and play around with electrical tape to hold the connector and cable just right to work with my laptop. (If I so much as touched that spot, or tilted the screen in any way the screen would show no picture but a ton of banding and other garbage... basically, unusable.) The bezel itself was putting "too much pressure" so I could never work with it on. I'm back now in the states, did some fiddling with the connector, and still to no avail... I'm resorting to buying ANOTHER LCD.

Am I doing something wrong (other than packing this laptop too tightly with stuff, which I'm not going to do anymore)? Can I make use of the two now-affected LCDs? Anyone have any experience with this kind of thing?

Note: One thing I notice is that when I see this white rectangular thing over my image, if I work with it for a while it starts to go away within 30 min (but you can still see it on a dark background), like it's ghosting.

Note 2: Image F and Image G shows various results when you put pressure on the connector area or when you let go and it's not in a "perfect" position. Note that there are vertical AND horizontal bands... you can't see the horizontal ones with the photo I took, unfortunately. It also goes all black and shows NO image, but you can see it's still powered because it's a "black picture" and not like if the LCD was completely disconnected.

 

So, uh, nothing then? =)