My screen is driving me nuts!

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Squirrel93

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My laptop is just over 2 years old and the screen is going nuts. There are columns of flickering colours all over the screen! It has happened about 6-7 times before, but it has usually disappeared after a restart. I've restarted 3 times and it won't go away this time. What can I do? I can hardly write this forum topics for these screen distortion.

http://i688.photobucket.com/albums/vv246/BeaverGuy93/IMG_1012.jpg

FYI: I used it in high school and I've never dropped it or otherwise harmed it (except for that one time I spilt some bottled water over the keyboard, but this has shown up much later). The laptop is extremely annoying to use. Please help! Thanks for reading.
 
Hi Squirrell, welcome back to CF

Your graphics card may be overheating, or the VRAM is dying or there is mechanical damage in your vga system.

Ensure the graphics card fan is free of dust (I would reapply thermal paste too) and update driver to allow fan controll. Crank it up and ensure it is working.

If its not overheating then its more than likely a mechanical issue such as the vga ribbon joining the keyboard section to the screen.

Download PC Wizard install it and look at your temps during gaming (if applicable). Report back on CPU and GPU temps.

I doubt its the water, Ive tipped whole beers into my computers (and watercooling fluids). Lol one time i dropped a full pint of Coopers Green into my 750W Corsair psu, it shut down. I started it again immediately, and it still is working :)

Look into heat.

If you need help with any of that yell out - PC Wizard link in my sig.
 
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Thanks for your reply! I just got PC Wizard, nifty program. I've got a desktop computer for gaming, this laptop is horrible at it so I can only give you the "normal" temperatures I found:

THRM: 38*C

Core 1: 29*C
Core 2: 29*C

Hard Disk: 26*C

bigfellla said:
I doubt its the water, Ive tipped whole beers into my computers (and watercooling fluids). Lol one time i dropped a full pint of Coopers Green into my 750W Corsair psu, it shut down. I started it again immediately, and it still is working :)
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That's good to know! :P

It has once again disappeared (I turned the computer off by holding down the Power button, then went for a walk and left it alone for 1½ hours), but you never know when it may creep up again.
 
Ok thats the CPU temps, im interested in the graphics card temps particularly the VRAM temps. The symptoms you describe also give further evidence towards an overheating vram (which does cause the issue you are having).

Please ensure you have the latest drivers for your system (particularly graphics) and test the temps.
 
Does tilting the screen back and forth do anything to the picture? Looks like loose or damaged ribbon cable to me.
 
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