I have a friend whose laptop's monitor is broken, his monitor display is all negative colors we brought it to a repair shop and they said that it was caused by too much playing games on it. I just want to be sure if that's true because i want to install games on mine and I'm afraid that it might also be broken.
2007-03-24 04:27:28 · 7 answers · asked by Karina 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Sounds like a load of cr@p to me. I suspect what really happened is the display driver (software) became corrupt, and so the pc was only able to show 16 colors - and stuff really looks bad at that color depth! (Which a game could cause, if it doesn't exit gracefully). However, I've also seen cards that fail in such a way that a driver will no longer "bind" to the card; in which case it is a hardware failure. (But not caused by game play!).
Also, in a laptop, there is the LCD driver logic, inside the lid itself. A "negetive" image isn't a symptom of this part going bad, either. Stripes or lines, yes, but not inverted colors.
2007-03-24 04:42:38 · answer #1 · answered by partsbucket 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't rely on those repair shops for technical advice to be honest with you. I have found many of them either don't have a lot of technical knowledge or they are very poor problem solvers who tend to jump to a conclusion to quickly.
I don't understand why they would tell your friend that playing games on a laptop caused this, did he mean burn in? Your playing computer games on an LCD, it is very hard to burn in an LCD. I have not seen your friends laptop, so I don't know, but I think your friend's laptop screen was broken by something enirely different. Probably a hardware malfunction. That just sounds like a very dumb answer to me. I hope your friend didn't pay these guys for that response?
2007-03-24 12:22:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A monitor is made to be used. Playing games on it will not break it. Over the course of time it will eventual wera down, perhaps, but the act of playing games on it is not detrimental to the life of your monitor unless you and your friends are running relay races and are using the laptop as the baton.
2007-03-24 11:36:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Your monitor is only connected to the computer. Its not affected by anything in the computer. It only shows whats going on inside. If ur monitor is messed up then it was bound to happen video game or not. Its almost like asking if your air conditioning still work if you get an air purifier.
2007-03-24 11:38:00 · answer #4 · answered by Young P 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's true that playing games very often can alter the screen a little but it does not ruin it. It mainly is if you try to run a high requirement game on the bare minumim of requirements.
2007-03-24 11:31:09 · answer #5 · answered by dustinh456 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
That's just a myth that went overboard--probably spread by parents who want to scare their kids who are addicted to games.
laptop monitors are just more susceptible to damage because of lack of care while traveling around with it (even inside the house)
2007-03-24 11:49:30 · answer #6 · answered by Red R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thats a big negative ur friends laptop must suck
2007-03-24 11:31:57 · answer #7 · answered by noskillzorz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋