[Discuss] dead LCD Monitor.

[Rajiv Khaneja]

Are you sure the monitor is dead? not just the video card it's connect to?
The symptoms sounds similar to a messed up video card...


On 8/28/07, Deeþan Chakravarthy <codeshepherd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> chris wakefield wrote:
> > Greetings all.
> >
> > Woke up this morning with a dead lcd monitor (acer - al716) and I'm
> wondering
> > if anyone has ever fixed these things.  The screen if full of odd square
> > shapes with various lines with faded patches morphing different colors
> to
> > almost black.
> > A hunch tells me it's the electronics, not the actual screen.
> >
> > Is this thing a paperweight or does anyone have any fix ideas?
> >
> > thanks,
> > Chris W.
> >
> Hi Chris,
>   I do have a Dell laptop with spoiled GPU, hence no display.  In my
> case I've to replace the motherboard to get it
> fixed. In your case, you need to replace the LCD alone.  You can look at
> Ebay for old LCDs.
>
> I remotely connect to my laptop and use it. I also have festival
> installed in it, and a custom script that will run what ever
> command I type and read aloud the output.  And the laptop is  configured
> with static IP, so I can connect to it remotely.
> You can remove your hard disk and mount it in some other machine and
> change the network settings to static IP.
> Good Luck.
>
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