Hi
I have spent numerous hours trawling sites to try figure out if my laptop LCD screen has failed, looking at all the different scenarios I have found on the web I can not find a clear cut answer, on boot up the screen flickers with vertical sharp white lines randomly spaced, at this point I can see the windows load up process bar etc, I am already set to fire up to a second monitor that being a standard 25htz standard TV. This I have to connect via a s/video cable. The reason for this is that I have tried 2 different external LCD monitors, and my trustworthy IIYAMA high res visionmaster pro. But can not get any of them to show my desktop? But using the old TV with s/video I have a perfect desktop? Also when I do flex the laptop screen I have a combination of vertical white flash lines and what looks like a splotchy desktop, patchy blotches that look kind of pixalated or like a low res background? Well after that long winded explanation. Can anyone give me any expert inclanations? Is this likely to be SCREEN or GRAPHICS CARD? My laptop is a SONY VAIO VGN-AR21M.
I will include a link if this is OK? To a swf video of my problem it shows exactly the symptoms.
http://www.snapdrive.net/files/209707/LCD%20FAULT/LCD%20FAULT_LCD.swf