Acer Aspire 5630 Laptop screen/display problem

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Pete Zahut typed on Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:57:11 +0100:
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Pete Zahut typed on Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:22:24 +0100:
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Pete Zahut typed on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:42:46 +0100:
Got the above laptop and it's just developed a problem with the
screen/display - there's a 65mm column at the right-hand side
of the display that's gone dark. Applications open up properly
and you can see the whole width of the app, but it doesn't go
the whole width of the screen - sort of full display but not
full screen if you see what I mean. Also, don't know if it's
relevant or not but the taskbar at the bottom seems to be
twice as tall as normal and isn't drag-able back to it's usual
size - cursor also distorts in this area. I'm not explaining
it very well, so have a look at this photo:
http://s137.photobucket.com/albums/q...nt=laptop1.jpg

At first I thought it may be a display driver issue but I've
uninstalled and reinstalled without success. I've also used a
program called #1-TuffTest Pro
(http://www.tufftest.com/ttp01.htm) that is self-booting,
operating system independent and never goes anywhere near
Windows, but shows the same results, so I would say that that
rules out any Windows driver issues. Picture of that test he
http://s137.photobucket.com/albums/q...nt=laptop2.jpg

Any ideas what's wrong and how to fix it?

TIA,

Hi Pete! Wow that is weird. An external monitor I can see this
happening. Internal monitor, I never saw this. Any chance you
can hook it up to an external? I suspect the same result.
Although you may adjust it to display correctly. In either
case, I believe you have to take it in for service. It is still
under warrantee, right?

I haven't as yet hooked it up to an external monitor, but will do
later today when I have chance, and let you know what I find.
Unfortunately, it's not in warranty so whatever it is, I'll have
to pay for the repair if it's a hardware fault (

Thanks Bill

Bill (and anyone else who's interested, of course), further to the
above I've now hooked it up to an external monitor and the display
on the external monitor is perfect.

Photo at
http://s137.photobucket.com/albums/q...t=laptop2a.jpg

Don't know what that means though (

Hi Pete! Well now we know. I doubt this laptop has a separate video
card and it is all on the motherboard. If somebody knows
differently, please let us know. Wait... I found a picture of the
motherboard...
http://www.notebooksolutions.ca/zc/i...oducts_id=2775

Nope, it looks like it is on the motherboard to me. Well after the
external video jack (which is analog video), it gets converted to
digital and fed to the LCD display. So we are talking about the
motherboard, ribbon cable, and the LCD display itself. And I don't
think it could be the last two, but I could be wrong. So that is
what I think anyway.

Thanks for that Bill, looks like a very expensive repair that isn't
really worth it - not yet anyway.

Cheers my friend,

Pete

Hi Pete! Well another ribbon cable should be cheap enough to try. I
don't think it is that though. If it were me, I would find one on
eBay working or with some other problem. Best if the other problem
wasn't something wrong with the motherboard. That way you could swap
parts until you find out which one of the three it was. I really
think it is the motherboard though.

I don't know what you want to do with it. But if you are not
interested in it, I would sell it or something. As somebody can use
it as is or with an external monitor. Or even fix it. grin

Oh I'll keep it, it's quite useable as it is, just annoying )

Yup, that would be my choice too Pete. grin

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Bill
Asus EEE PC 701G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
Windows XP SP2