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Title: My laptop display (and/or videocard?) is on the fritz
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on December 05, 2008, 08:43:50 PM

The right 25% or so is covered with vertical multicolored bars.  It changes a bit with the orientation of the screen, and not at all between text and graphics modes, so I guess this is likely to be a problem with the display itself (or even the connection between the display and the video card?) and not the video card?  Are laptop displays replaceable at reasonable cost?

Title: Re: My laptop display (and/or videocard?) is on the fritz
Post by: Propagandhim on December 05, 2008, 09:00:08 PM

If you take a screenshot and it's still fucked up, it's probably the GPU itself and not the connection.

Title: Re: My laptop display (and/or videocard?) is on the fritz
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on December 05, 2008, 09:02:12 PM

ooh good idea, don't I feel dumb for not thinking of that.  nope, screenshot looks fine.

Title: Re: My laptop display (and/or videocard?) is on the fritz
Post by: FatalT on December 05, 2008, 09:09:54 PM

Try installing new drivers for your video card or rolling back to older drivers and see if that does anything for you. I remember my laptop started seriously bugging out one night after playing Warhammer on it (that game raped my poor laptop) but it eventually corrected itself after a few reboots. I had horizontal fuzzy white noise lines and purple glitches everywhere, even in screenshots.

Title: Re: My laptop display (and/or videocard?) is on the fritz
Post by: Brehvolution on December 05, 2008, 09:23:15 PM

*shot in the dark*

Does it make any difference at what angle the screen is?

*ie. moving the screen toward and away from you*