I have a Toshiba Satellite P25S609. It had a vertical line (about 2 mm wide) all the way from top to bottom on far left of the screen for a while. Lately when the machine starts, half of the screen on the left stays black with interleaving vertical lines on top of it. The vertical lines are about 1 and half inches apart. The black screen usually goes away if I move the screen back and forth slightly. But today things have changed - the (half) black screen together with the vertical lines won't go away any more no matter what I do, and the whole machine becomes useless because of this.
My questions are: Is the LCD dead? or is it because of the cable connecting the LCD and motherboard? I opened up the screen and checked that there's no loose connection.
If the LCD is bad, what's the last thing I could try before trashing the LCD?
2006-06-12 13:21:34 · 1 answers · asked by Leo Jiang 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
the problem may be the ribbon cable going from the computer to the screen. check if it is broken. You may still use the laptop with an external monitor.
2006-06-12 17:06:29 · answer #1 · answered by David C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋