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Acer Laptop Screen Problem*Updated* w/ Video
Sooooo.... I'm working on a free hand-me-down laptop. Had a hard drive problem, which I fixed and happened to find 4GB of RAM to toss into it... and what do ya know, the screen starts messing up as soon as I fixed it...
The laptop is not very old so I would like to fix it... onto my problem.
The screen sort of "flickers" and "moves around" and also has a pink tint to it every once in awhile. The screen is this way as soon as I power on the laptop, and having it plugged into the wall proves no difference. Another strange thing is, if I leave it on, after about 5-10 minutes its works perfect, but only for about 15 seconds, then back to like the picture above.
- Tried hooking it up to my desktop monitor, works great.
- Took this thing apart, checked the all of the wire connections, seem to be solid and fooling with them with the lappy on did no justice. I'm stumped basically.
So now I'm wondering, backlight or inverter?
EDIT: Oops forgot the laptop info
Acer Aspire 7520-5071
17" Dual-Core 4GB RAM
Any comments/help?
Thanks in advance,
-Shook
--------------UPDATE----------
So I tried an inverter.... no fix
Noticed that while messing with the video cable to the LCD made the screen go in and out.....
Ordered a new LCD cable.... no fix
Sooo I made a short video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9vAGRl3ewc
Last edited by Shook; 13 Jul 2010 at 00:42.