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"Pete Zahut" dont@bother wrote in
: Fixer, I owe you a pint - a œ12GBP secondhand LCD cable from Ebay sorted the problem. Thanks very much mate, and to all who took the time to try and help ![]() Pete Don't you just love the look on the other people's faces around you when you've troubleshot some complex problem successfully on the other side of the planet by remote control?......(c;] I fixed a Russian TV set in Siberia for a guy who was stumped, from here in South Carolina. One of my friends, here, was sitting in my little messy computer room when the Skype call from Siberia came in thanking me for fixing his TV. The look on my friend's face was simply PRICELESS. He still thinks I'm some kind of genius....hee hee...(c;] -- ----- Larry You can tell there's very intelligent life in the Universe because none of them have ever tried to contact us..... |
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"Pete Zahut" dont@bother wrote in : Fixer, I owe you a pint - a o12GBP secondhand LCD cable from Ebay sorted the problem. Thanks very much mate, and to all who took the time to try and help o) Pete Don't you just love the look on the other people's faces around you when you've troubleshot some complex problem successfully on the other side of the planet by remote control?......(c;] I fixed a Russian TV set in Siberia for a guy who was stumped, from here in South Carolina. One of my friends, here, was sitting in my little messy computer room when the Skype call from Siberia came in thanking me for fixing his TV. The look on my friend's face was simply PRICELESS. He still thinks I'm some kind of genius....hee hee...(c;] Yeah, it truly is the spirit of USENET and the internet and it gives you a warm fuzzy feeling knowing that you've helped someone. This particular problem was well beyond me (never messed with laptops before) but in general I'm not so bad with computers and I use PCHelpware to remotely access friends and family member's computers when they need help. One particular friend believes I'm in league with Satan and should be burned at the stake as he sits there, 200 miles away, watching me move his cursor and doing what needs to be done ![]() |
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"Pete Zahut" dont@bother wrote in
: One particular friend believes I'm in league with Satan and should be burned at the stake as he sits there, 200 miles away, watching me move his cursor and doing what needs to be done ![]() I run my boxes remotely from my little N800 Linux tablet using rdesktop to WinXP's Remote Desktop quite a bit. The Winbox is always online, so why not let it do all the heavy lifting and storage then access just one email client, for example, instead of all this multiple email clients and the troubles associated with "syncing" the remote computer to the main computers. Because the tablet's rdesktop requires a separate keyboard, or use the crappy virtual keyboard on the WinXP box over the net, I use a rollup rubber keyboard stored in the car if I need it to type something. Works great for me. No syncing, less wasted space on the remote box....you just can hear the audio and the link's not near fast enough for any videos. "Let me check that email from 1998 on my main computer.", I say popping up the main email on the little tablet way off somewhere. They always look so astonished I have such remote access. They really need to learn how to USE Windows or Linux past the basic web browser and desktop.... -- ----- Larry You can tell there's very intelligent life in the Universe because none of them have ever tried to contact us..... |
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Hi Pete,
I've got exactly the same fault with my beloved 5920g as you had... one day the screen just seemed to be squeezed into part of the TFT. All of the desktop is displayed but a fair portion of the screen is black down one side. I was massively relieved to see you had found a solution, but having looked for a cable in the UK and failed... I'm starting to lose hope. Any suggestions for where I can track one down, and what the procedure is to replace it? Cheers, Mark. Pete Zahut wrote: Fixer wrote: "Pete Zahut" dont@bother wrote in message ... Paul wrote: Pete Zahut wrote: 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, Pete Have you done a graphics driver update recently ? No - uninstalled and reinstalled driver to try to fix the problem, but not updated. It looks like a mismatch, between the actual LCD panel, and what the software thinks it is driving. Paul Yeah, I'd agree with you there Paul - except for the fact that I've even used the Recovery CD/Partition to restore the laptop to the state it was in when it left the factory and the display is still faulty even then. Ok the way to tell if its hardware or software causing the problem is when the machine starts to boot drop into the BIOS whatever it is for your laptop, F2 for Dells , Del for some others but anyway whatever it is for your machine. If the problem is there in when you look in the BIOS its the LCD panel or Cable or Motherboard port. IF it's not there then it's a driver/application, error. Of course you could also connect it to an external monitor and again if its there then its the grapghics card or motherboard port or software/drivers and if its not there then it's the LCD or cable Fixer, I owe you a pint - a £12GBP secondhand LCD cable from Ebay sorted the problem. Thanks very much mate, and to all who took the time to try and help ![]() Pete -- -- +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Follow alt.comp.hardware,alt.sys.pc-clone.acer,comp.sys.laptops,uk.comp.sys.laptops threads | | with your Firefox Live Bookmarks! Set it up at | | http://www.1-script.com/forums/ | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |
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In article , malarky
says... Hi Pete, I've got exactly the same fault with my beloved 5920g as you had... one day the screen just seemed to be squeezed into part of the TFT. All of the desktop is displayed but a fair portion of the screen is black down one side. I was massively relieved to see you had found a solution, but having looked for a cable in the UK and failed... I'm starting to lose hope. Any suggestions for where I can track one down, and what the procedure is to replace it? Ebay. Just getting one in to do next week. -- Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk I only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking good either. - Scott Adams |
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Hi Mark,
All I can say is Ebay for the cable and then download a manual from here http://www.tim.id.au/blog/tims-lapto...uals/#toc-acer HTH, Pete malarky wrote: Hi Pete, I've got exactly the same fault with my beloved 5920g as you had... one day the screen just seemed to be squeezed into part of the TFT. All of the desktop is displayed but a fair portion of the screen is black down one side. I was massively relieved to see you had found a solution, but having looked for a cable in the UK and failed... I'm starting to lose hope. Any suggestions for where I can track one down, and what the procedure is to replace it? Cheers, Mark. Pete Zahut wrote: Fixer wrote: "Pete Zahut" dont@bother wrote in message ... Paul wrote: Pete Zahut wrote: 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, Pete Have you done a graphics driver update recently ? No - uninstalled and reinstalled driver to try to fix the problem, but not updated. It looks like a mismatch, between the actual LCD panel, and what the software thinks it is driving. Paul Yeah, I'd agree with you there Paul - except for the fact that I've even used the Recovery CD/Partition to restore the laptop to the state it was in when it left the factory and the display is still faulty even then. Ok the way to tell if its hardware or software causing the problem is when the machine starts to boot drop into the BIOS whatever it is for your laptop, F2 for Dells , Del for some others but anyway whatever it is for your machine. If the problem is there in when you look in the BIOS its the LCD panel or Cable or Motherboard port. IF it's not there then it's a driver/application, error. Of course you could also connect it to an external monitor and again if its there then its the grapghics card or motherboard port or software/drivers and if its not there then it's the LCD or cable Fixer, I owe you a pint - a £12GBP secondhand LCD cable from Ebay sorted the problem. Thanks very much mate, and to all who took the time to try and help o) Pete -- Follow alt.comp.hardware,alt.sys.pc-clone.acer,comp.sys.laptops,uk.comp.sys.laptops threads | with your Firefox Live Bookmarks! Set it up at | http://www.1-script.com/forums/ | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |
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![]() Thanks to everyone for this very useful thread. Had the same problem on my Acer Aspire 5630. Only 1024x768 area of the 1280x800 display was useable, with a wide black margin on the right and an area at the bottom where the last row of the display is stretched down to the bottom of the screen. After seeing this thread, I bought a second hand cable off ebay (3.50 GBP delivered - bargain!). Changing the cable has solved the problem, and the display now works correctly. New cable was advertised as coming from an Acer Aspire 5680, but it had the same text on the label: HBL51/HBL50 15.4" WXGA DC020007O00 MEC REV: 2.1 I unpicked the tape from the faulty cable and found a broken yellow wire, right where the cable bends in the hinge as you would expect. Thanks again - laptop is now fixed for minimal cost. |
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