[dba-Tech] pc has visual problems

[Susan Harkins]

No table to the laptop screen -- flip top. Looking for a new one later. I'm also considering a dummy keyboard and just putting it aside as a "processor."

Susan H. 


If you have your laptop connected to other monitors and they are fine and its only the laptop screen which is playing up, I would suggest its either the cable connecting to the laptop worn or loose or screen on way out, both relatively easy fixes or if got the money and excuse for a new one.

Paul

On Mon, 14 Sep 2020, 19:10 Susan Harkins, <ssharkins at gmail.com> wrote:

> Gary -- it's the screen on the laptop. Connected monitors are fine.
>
> Susan H.
>
>
> In my opinion, things to consider and check....
>
> 1) physical connection
>
> 2) bad cable
>
> 3) bad driver
>
> 4) Bad video card or circuitry
>
> 5) bad monitor
>
> Mostly the isolation of the problem would be swapping things around.
> Unplugging and replugging or on another computer to see if things work 
> there.
>
> Check the cable connection on both ends.  Perhaps a loose cable.
>
> Try the monitor on a different computer or if you have two connections 
> on the same computer swap them.
>
> Good luck.
>
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 11:01 AM Susan Harkins <ssharkins at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > My pc has vertical and horizontal lines this morning. Rebooting does 
> > change things a bit, but it doesn't get rid of them. I've switched 
> > my main monitor so I can still work, but I'm down a screen, which is
> inconvenient.
> > I'll live. 😊
> >
> > Instead of buying a new pc, I'm wondering if there might be an easy 
> > fix -- maybe hardware circuitry or something? I have no idea what 
> > the insides of a pc look like and I don't know if it's even possible 
> > to
> switch out a "card"
> > the way you can in a tower. At first, I thought I'd just run disc 
> > repair, but the other monitors are fine, so I don't think that will 
> > work. If it were a disc read problem, wouldn't I see the same lines 
> > on
> another monitor?
> >
> > So, my husband's pc shopping this morning, but I've told him not to 
> > buy anything yet.
> >
> > Any thoughts? Thanks in advance. I haven't done any research yet -- 
> > I have too much word to do today to attend to it until later this
> afternoon.
> >
> > Susan H
> >
> >
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