seamusandrosy
June 6th, 2008, 06:37 PM
Hello!
A few hours ago a very, very strange screen problem suddenly sprang up.
The bottom third of my screen is not reacting properly. Sometimes it works fine, but then it will freeze the image when I turn the cube, so I'll have two-thirds of one side of the cube on my screen, and that will work fine, but then there will be the one-third of another side frozen there.
Then it will - I'm sorry, I'm having trouble finding the proper words to explain things - dissolve, in all the wrong colors, over the course of about three seconds, and the whole screen will work fine again.
Sometimes, and this was the first part of the problem I noticed, the bottom third will vibrate.
I have a Compaq Presario V500 laptop. I've been running Ubuntu for weeks now without any problems. I have a dual boot.
I'm very afraid it's a hardware problem - I try to be careful with my laptop, but the laptop itself has been getting ridiculously hot lately, I actually burnt myself on it once, and it's 97 degrees out. Could that combination have fried something?
Also, I'm not the original owner. We bought it from a friend of the family about ten months ago.
Does anyone have any ideas on what this could be caused by and what my best course of action is?
Thank you!
EDIT:
It looks like it is a hardware problem - I hooked it up to a monitor and observed it, and the vibrating-bottom problem did not occur on the monitor...
A few hours ago a very, very strange screen problem suddenly sprang up.
The bottom third of my screen is not reacting properly. Sometimes it works fine, but then it will freeze the image when I turn the cube, so I'll have two-thirds of one side of the cube on my screen, and that will work fine, but then there will be the one-third of another side frozen there.
Then it will - I'm sorry, I'm having trouble finding the proper words to explain things - dissolve, in all the wrong colors, over the course of about three seconds, and the whole screen will work fine again.
Sometimes, and this was the first part of the problem I noticed, the bottom third will vibrate.
I have a Compaq Presario V500 laptop. I've been running Ubuntu for weeks now without any problems. I have a dual boot.
I'm very afraid it's a hardware problem - I try to be careful with my laptop, but the laptop itself has been getting ridiculously hot lately, I actually burnt myself on it once, and it's 97 degrees out. Could that combination have fried something?
Also, I'm not the original owner. We bought it from a friend of the family about ten months ago.
Does anyone have any ideas on what this could be caused by and what my best course of action is?
Thank you!
EDIT:
It looks like it is a hardware problem - I hooked it up to a monitor and observed it, and the vibrating-bottom problem did not occur on the monitor...