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Weird laptop display issue
This is an issue my co-worker just asked me about on his personal Dell laptop, which is 2-3 months shy of being 2 years old.
It has Win7 Home Premium, 64-bit, Core i5 processor, and 6 GB RAM.
He said it did this several months ago, when the original battery started wearing out, but then it sort of "fixed" itself. He used the machine for several months with no battery, then just got a new battery this week. Now out of the blue last night and today it started doing this again with the top half of the display.
He said sometimes it will go several hours before it happens, sometimes only 10 minutes. Today it was doing it without the battery installed at all. His thought was maybe heat related? The skewed graphics on the top half of the screen were moving slightly (it wasn't totally static), so I'm thinking there must be a problem with the physical conductors carrying the signal from the CPU/mobo to the LCD display in the lid. Thoughts?