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Hey Everyone
I've been trying to find information about this, but I'm not quite sure what to search for.
I have an inspiron 8200 laptop. I started it up today and all of a sudden the screen seems to be checkered. What I mean by that is it's as if there's a mesh screen streched from left to right accross my screen and within each rectangle of the screen there's a different color filter. I thought maybe it was my graphics driver, but I don't think it is because when I restart my computer, the dell startup screen is also checkered blue and black.
Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do to fix this?
Thanks!
I've been trying to find information about this, but I'm not quite sure what to search for.
I have an inspiron 8200 laptop. I started it up today and all of a sudden the screen seems to be checkered. What I mean by that is it's as if there's a mesh screen streched from left to right accross my screen and within each rectangle of the screen there's a different color filter. I thought maybe it was my graphics driver, but I don't think it is because when I restart my computer, the dell startup screen is also checkered blue and black.
Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do to fix this?
Thanks!
- Well... I tried that and an interesting thing happened... I plugged in the external monitor and the LCD screen cleared right up. Strange... maybe it's a loose cable. If it happens again I'll take a look inside. By the way, is there any good manual on line as to how to take appart (and put back together) an inspiron 8200?
(By the way... I don't think it's a faulty graphics card because I just had it replaced over christmas break :p )Message Edited by CrewNick on 02-11-2006 10:59 PM
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Posted February 11th, 2006 23:00
If it shows the same thing, the video card is likely faulty.