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UmbraVulpes · 12-12-2008, 08:21 AM

Hi guys, a couple of days ago my Sony Vaio VGN fe-31h starting looking rather strange on screen. It seems that certain shades aren't being displayed properly and are instead shown as vertical or horizontal coloured lines. I'm now fairly sure its a problem with the monitor, I'm running Vista Ultimate but it persists if I boot up into Damn Small Linux and the BIOS page looks slightly odd as well. I've tried uninstalling and reintalling drivers for my graphics card to no avail, I've tried various resolutions and colour schemes, and I've taken a screenshot and sent it to another computer where it looked perfectly fine. Is my laptops monitor on its way out? Or is there some way to coax some more life out of it? Thanks in advance.

12-12-2008, 08:21 AM	#1 (permalink)
UmbraVulpes Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 8 OS: Vista Ultimate Sp1	Laptop monitor having issues Hi guys, a couple of days ago my Sony Vaio VGN fe-31h starting looking rather strange on screen. It seems that certain shades aren't being displayed properly and are instead shown as vertical or horizontal coloured lines. I'm now fairly sure its a problem with the monitor, I'm running Vista Ultimate but it persists if I boot up into Damn Small Linux and the BIOS page looks slightly odd as well. I've tried uninstalling and reintalling drivers for my graphics card to no avail, I've tried various resolutions and colour schemes, and I've taken a screenshot and sent it to another computer where it looked perfectly fine. Is my laptops monitor on its way out? Or is there some way to coax some more life out of it? Thanks in advance.