Help! Parts of screen inaccessible

[dickson_lam2]

Yeah, so basically, parts of my actual screen aren't filled in by whats on display.

Don't know how to explain it in words properly so here's a photo -



It doesn't happen every time I switch on the Laptop, but when it does, it starts from the moment the laptop is turned on (boot up I believe it was called). It may sometimes fix itself when starting up windows, and the display on my second monitor is fine as normal.

Anyone know how to fix this?

 

[MindoverMaster]

I would blame the LCD. There's probably a loose connection. Or the connector could be bad, similar to a video cable.

Is this still under warranty?

 

[dickson_lam2]

No it isn't unfortunately.

But are there alternatives other than sticking my laptop on hibernate after I'm done?

 

[MindoverMaster]

Shut it down?

You could put it to sleep, too.

 

[dickson_lam2]

Yeah, but if I shut down, there's a chance that the screen will become like that again.

 

[MindoverMaster]

Hibernation for a laptop isn't really meant for long time use. Hibernation saves the memory to hard disk, and shuts off the system. So it is really like shutting down, just in a different way.

Shutting down will not hurt your LCD. This is a connection problem, not a system problem.