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My Laptop Display: Tell me what the eff is wrong with it

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Jimor:
Looks like somebody's arm got trapped inside the display during manufacturing. That tends to mess up the gonkulator circuitry.

Chesire Cat:
Its consistently works while booting up and when it switches primary display to the external one? Or is it sketchy and only breaks sometimes, other times it works?

If its sketchy and inconsistent its probably hardware, a bad ribbon cable to be exact. If its consistent then its probably drivers or some other software cause. Or possible the video card itself.

Christophe:
Ok, here's the skinny on what this thing does.

Usually, when I shut down this computer, I have to leave it plugged into the external monitor when I switch it back on. Otherwise it does the weird screen thingy. After that though, and I'm all logged in and stuff I can unplug the external monitor and use the laptop display, even if I close the lid or put it on hibernate. So it doesn't seem to be a driver issue; for me, "bad ribbon cable" seems to be the most plausible explanation. I'm pretty hesitant to open up the computer though; I'm quite sure that doing that last year might have caused this issue (was trying to clean out a shitdick of dust that accumulated on the fan).

So basically I'd have to go to a computer repairman or something or send this thing in for repair to Compaq, neither of which I am enthused of doing.

Christophe:
Bump to see if anyone can say anything about this before I try re-setting the cables or asking a techie or whatever

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