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07-08-2005, 04:35 PM
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Hardcore Equipment Tester
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Abington, MA
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laptop trouble
My laptop just started showing a bunch of pencil thin white vertical lines all the way across the screen. Any ideas??
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Bent Rods and Screaming Reels!
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07-08-2005, 04:40 PM
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Which Way Did They Go
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Blackstone, MA
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Can you do anything with it? If so, it is probably a screen issue. If not, then a more serious issue.
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"You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give"
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07-08-2005, 05:45 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: RI
Posts: 5,695
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Compaq?
They're famous for it.
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07-09-2005, 11:29 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2004
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i had the same problem with ibook mac, its the processor.
you can tap the area around the front of the computer and make it flicker.
the repair involved return with new software 3 times !! beware back up your files ...I didnt lose anything in the repair...
i had a pink screen with horizontal lines, while underneath all of the mess, it ran perfect,just couldnt see it !
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07-14-2005, 06:56 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Rochester, NH
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Screen Lines
Could be your video connection is getting lose. My Dell did that. Take the unit apart ( basic ) and just tighten the connector from video card to LCD screen. Dell had a section that detailed this fix.
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The Ole Sarge
RC&SU (Rude Crude & Socially Unacceptable)
Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway
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07-15-2005, 01:12 PM
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Hardcore Equipment Tester
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Abington, MA
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All set called Compaq last friday, they sent me a box overnight. I removed the harddrive, and sent the thing out on monday, got it back today with a new lcd screen. Not bad service...  |
Bent Rods and Screaming Reels!
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07-16-2005, 08:55 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: RI
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Originally Posted by TheSpecialist
Not bad service... |
Don't hold your breath.I found Compaq's customer service to be the worst I've ever dealt with.That and the Providian Credit Card company.
Mine went to Compaq 4 seperate times with some of the most bizarre repairs
done to it.After the fourth time I finally got a new computer.It also had the same problem.Now I just deal with it by giving it a tap and its fine.I just won't deal with Compaq again.
I shoulda stuck with Toshiba.Now THEY have good customer service IF you need it.Toshiba laptops are great.And you actually get to talk to someone without an Indian accent. |
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07-17-2005, 10:57 AM
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lobster = striper bait
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Popes Island Performing Arts Center
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If you give any of em a hard enough time they'll be forced to bend over backwards.
I screamed at some poor Indian dude on Friday about 2 Dell laptops and they're shipping brand new ones Monday AM on next day.  |
Ski Quicks Hole
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07-19-2005, 08:45 AM
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Callinectes sapidus
Join Date: Oct 2001
Posts: 6,264
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Speaking of "poor indian dudes"....
It's a shame how they're outsourcing IT support issues to other countries...YES< other countries....I deal with support teams on a daily basis, and NO, they don't just have an accent and work in NY...they have an accent and live in Indonesia..............it's ALL about the Benjamins baby....  |
 ... it finally happened, there are no more secret spots
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07-19-2005, 08:59 AM
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lobster = striper bait
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Popes Island Performing Arts Center
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outsourced monkies read from a script.
they have no IT skills.
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Ski Quicks Hole
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07-22-2005, 08:02 AM
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It's about respect baby!
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: ri
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I see them dudes here... they dont eat.... they keep to their own... and they just drink coffee....
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Domination takes full concentration..
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07-22-2005, 10:54 AM
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Registered User
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Location: RI
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Originally Posted by bloocrab
Speaking of "poor indian dudes"....
It's a shame how they're outsourcing IT support issues to other countries...YES< other countries....I deal with support teams on a daily basis, and NO, they don't just have an accent and work in NY...they have an accent and live in Indonesia..............it's ALL about the Benjamins baby.... |
I watched a whole Dateline or 20/20 show about that.Freakin' amazing. |
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07-22-2005, 11:00 AM
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lobster = striper bait
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Popes Island Performing Arts Center
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Originally Posted by ThrowingTimber
I see them dudes here... they dont eat.... they keep to their own... and they just drink coffee....
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I worked a job when XML first appeared in the world with an Indian on an H1B, he wanted nothing to do with the rest of us, just coded and kept to himself.
Eventually drove my boss up the walls and he fired him.
It was a 10 person company so getting along was a necessity.
He also didn't like the boss's dog or mine that were in the office every day.  |
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