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Old February 21st, 2007, 07:22 AM
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Hp Pavilion notebook help?

me and my friends at school run a hardware/maintenance repair shop at my school during the day. yesterday we stumbled upon an hp pavilion notebook. the problem is that when we boot the computer up, a bunch of lines show up and it almost looks like plaid. we hooked the notebook up to a projector and it allowed us to see what was behind all these lines.

My instructor wondered if the problem could be a virus in the video card or something wrong with the video card. Or could it just be that the screen is broken?

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me and my friends at school run a hardware/maintenance repair shop at my school during the day. yesterday we stumbled upon an hp pavilion notebook. the problem is that when we boot the computer up, a bunch of lines show up and it almost looks like plaid. we hooked the notebook up to a projector and it allowed us to see what was behind all these lines.

My instructor wondered if the problem could be a virus in the video card or something wrong with the video card. Or could it just be that the screen is broken?


If you hook the laptop up to an external monitor, and everything is fine, then the chances are, it's the laptop monitor that is the issue.
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Without seeing a screenshot I can't say for sure, but it does sound like the laptop screen has failed.
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