Re: Laptop woes - Black background is now pure red.
On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 04:15:00PM EDT, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 03:21:18PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: [...] > > To clarify, I have uploaded a few screenshots at: > > > > www.geocities.com/fcky1000/fckw/ > > > > Thanks, > > CJ > > > Since the screenshots look normal to us, I'm assuming it's probably > the screen itself. Is the machine still on warranty? Perhaps you > should contact their tech support and try to have them look at it (I > wish I could offer more help, but I don't touch anything on the > hardware level, so I apologize for my useless response) To all.. thanks for such quick response. And :-/ the screenshots now look perfectly normal.. I couldn't figure out how they could look the same as what I was seeing on screen - now I do. The LCD is practically new - but the video cable and the converter are old. I have some spares so I could try that. At this point acpi reports a temperature of 52C and there is no problem at all. I'll stream some video to warm it up when I'm done writing this. The laptop is ancient and I'm not sure I want to spend hundreds of dollars to have it repaired (or not.. not sure who you can trust). And buying parts one at a time and sending them back for a refund if they don't fix the problem.. Not sure what I'm going to do at this point. Thanks, CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Laptop woes - Black background is now pure red.
On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 03:21:18PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > This happened over the last couple of days. on a laptop that spends all > its time on a desk .. didn't drop it, spill fluids or anything. > > [...] > > To clarify, I have uploaded a few screenshots at: > > www.geocities.com/fcky1000/fckw/ > > Thanks, > CJ > Since the screenshots look normal to us, I'm assuming it's probably the screen itself. Is the machine still on warranty? Perhaps you should contact their tech support and try to have them look at it (I wish I could offer more help, but I don't touch anything on the hardware level, so I apologize for my useless response) -- http://fuzzydev.org/~pobega http://identi.ca/pobega -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
RE: Laptop woes - Black background is now pure red.
> From: Harry Rickards [mailto:hricka...@l33tmyst.com] > Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 2:33 PM > Subject: Re: Laptop woes - Black background is now pure red. > > On 05/08/09 20:21, Chris Jones wrote: [snip] > > To clarify, I have uploaded a few screenshots at: > > > > www.geocities.com/fcky1000/fckw/ > > > > Thanks, > > CJ > > > > The screenshots look normal to us, try taking them with a camera. Since the screenshots look normal my guess is the screen. Does the laptop have an external monitor port? If so I would try that first. ~Stack~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Laptop woes - Black background is now pure red.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/08/09 20:21, Chris Jones wrote: > This happened over the last couple of days. on a laptop that spends all > its time on a desk .. didn't drop it, spill fluids or anything. > > The LCD is about a year old and so the cfl has only c. 1000 hours. > > If I leave the laptop to cool off for a while and boot, everything is > fine - display is nice & crisp, no funny colors or anything. > > As the laptop warms up, I begin to see some red flashes when I'm typing > something on a black background. > > When acpi reports a temperature of 60C or thereabout, the bright red > becomes permanent and what I'm typing - normally light grey on black, is > pretty much illegible. > > 60C is not hot on this laptop: the fan only starts up when it reaches a > termperature of 74C. > > When that happens, pretty much the only thing that is nice and crisp is > reverse video stuff such as my root prompt or visuual selections in vim. > > If I switch to a light background such as google search in mozilla, the > background has a bluish/greenish tinge in most places - more like > shadows than a uniform color.. also, it flickers. > > I have reseated the video cable to no effect - I vaguely suspect the > video card - an ATI Mach64 might be the culprit. > > Before I start bying new parts, I was wondering if anyone has > experienced anything similar to this. > > As you can imagine, since I don't have another machine available at > this point, I have not googled much for solutions :-) > > In fact, on-screen stuff is so bad that I'm having a hard time reading > what I just typed. > > To clarify, I have uploaded a few screenshots at: > > www.geocities.com/fcky1000/fckw/ > > Thanks, > CJ > The screenshots look normal to us, try taking them with a camera. - -- Many thanks Harry Rickards (a.k.a l33tmyst) - -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GAT/GCM/GCS/GCC/GIT/GM d? s: a? C UL P- L+++ E--- W+++ N o K+ w--- O- M- V- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t 5 X R tv-- b+++ DI D G e* h! !r y? - --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkoEiN8ACgkQ1kZz3mRu0Gr/VgCfb6SocIKjk/i7rg7p7d3eqfzX +msAn3qJCES7kd6V4/Fdxu5yo/NfjqVA =lkP8 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
