Broken screen or dying GPU?

ShadyDeth · Aug 28, 2013

My mother carries her laptop around bag and who knows what she lays on top of it or what she hits with it. What do you guys think it is?

SKBARON · Aug 28, 2013

Might be the screen cable, might be the screen, might be the gpu, can you try plugging a monitor or a TV into the laptop? That way you could see for sure what's the problem

Aquinus · Aug 28, 2013

I have a machine that did that in the BIOS and froze when one of the sticks of ram were bad but was just good enough to boot. Too much weight on top of the display would have cracked the screen, it wouldn't do this. I would check the LVDS cabling for the display and if there is two sticks of memory I would boot with one of each just to rule memory out.

Jstn7477 · Aug 28, 2013

Screen or the cable. This happened all the time when my high school gave my 9th grade class laptops to take home and everywhere back in 2005, and of course half the laptops were broken during that year, the company that insured them for $25 each was a sham and stopped backing them, and that program was discontinued after the school year lol.

Jetster · Aug 28, 2013

Im guessing the GPU. If it was the cable then it would most likely change when you open and close the lid. But connect it to another monitor. Hopefully its under warranty

ShadyDeth · Aug 29, 2013

This is her work laptop that isn't used too often except for some simple things, but she already went and sent it back to have them replace it so I wasn't able to test what was really wrong with it.

Thanks for all the replies though.

Processor	Intel i7-8770k
Motherboard	ASUS ROG Maximus X Hero
Cooling	Corsair H115i
Memory	32GB (4x8GB) Corsair Vengeance DDR4@3200
Video Card(s)	EVGA Titan X (Maxwell)
Storage	Samsung 950 Pro
Case	Phanteks Enthoo Evolv X
Power Supply	Corsair RM1000i
Mouse	Corsair Ironclaw
Keyboard	Corsair K70 RGB
Software	Windows 11

System Name	Winter Heater
Processor	Intel Core I7 5820k@4250 Mhz
Motherboard	ASUS x99 Deluxe
Cooling	Cryorig H5
Memory	2x4GB Corsair Vengeance DDR4 + 2x4GB Kingston HyperX DDR4 @ 3000Mhz
Video Card(s)	OEM GTX 970
Storage	Seagate ST4000VN000, Hitachi 2TB, Crucial CX500 1TB
Display(s)	LG 23EA63
Case	Thermaltake Versa N21
Power Supply	EVGA 650 GQ

System Name	Apollo
Processor	Intel Core i9 9880H
Motherboard	Some proprietary Apple thing.
Memory	64GB DDR4-2667
Video Card(s)	AMD Radeon Pro 5600M, 8GB HBM2
Storage	1TB Apple NVMe, 4TB External
Display(s)	Laptop @ 3072x1920 + 2x LG 5k Ultrafine TB3 displays
Case	MacBook Pro (16", 2019)
Audio Device(s)	AirPods Pro, Sennheiser HD 380s w/ FIIO Alpen 2, or Logitech 2.1 Speakers
Power Supply	96w Power Adapter
Mouse	Logitech MX Master 3
Keyboard	Logitech G915, GL Clicky
Software	MacOS 12.1

System Name	Awesomesauce 4.3 \| Laptop (MSI GE72VR 6RF Apache Pro-023)
Processor	Intel Core i7-5820K 4.16GHz 1.28v/3GHz 1.05v uncore \| Intel Core i7-6700HQ @ 3.1GHz
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-X99-UD5 WiFi LGA2011-v3\| Stock
Cooling	Corsair H100i v2 w/ 2x EK Vardar F4-120ER + various 120/140mm case fans \| Stock
Memory	G.Skill RJ-4 16GB DDR4-2666 CL15 quad channel \| 12GB DDR4-2133
Video Card(s)	EVGA GTX 1080 Ti Hybrid SC2 11GB @ 2012/5151 boost \| NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB +200/+500 + Intel 530
Storage	Samsung 840 EVO 500GB + Seagate 3TB 7200RPM + others \| Kingston 256GB M.2 SATA + 1TB 7200RPM
Display(s)	Acer G257HU 1440p 60Hz AH-IPS 4ms \| 17.3" 1920*1080 60Hz wide angle TN notebook panel
Case	Fractal Design Define XL R2 \| MSI
Audio Device(s)	Creative Sound Blaster Z \| Realtek with quad stereo speakers and subwoofer
Power Supply	Corsair HX850i Platinum \| 19.5v 180w Delta brick
Software	Windows 10 Pro x64 \| Windows 10 Home x64

System Name	Juliette // HTPC
Processor	Intel i7 9700K // AMD Ryzen 5 5600G
Motherboard	ASUS Prime Z390X-A // ASRock B550 ITX-AC
Cooling	Noctua NH-U12 Black // Stock
Memory	Corsair DDR4 3600 32gb //G.SKILL Trident Z Royal Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 3600
Video Card(s)	ASUS RTX4070 OC// GTX 1650
Storage	Samsung 970 EVO NVMe 1Tb, Intel 665p Series M.2 2280 1TB // Samsung 1Tb SSD
Display(s)	ASUS VP348QGL 34" Quad HD 3440 x 1440 // 55" LG 4K SK8000 Series
Case	Seasonic SYNCRO Q7// Silverstone Granada GD05
Audio Device(s)	Focusrite Scarlett 4i4 // HDMI to Samsung HW-R650 sound bar
Power Supply	Seasonic SYNCRO 750 W // CORSAIR Vengeance 650M
Mouse	Cooler Master MM710 53G
Keyboard	Logitech 920-009300 G512 SE
Software	Windows 10 Pro // Windows 10 Pro

Broken screen or dying GPU?

ShadyDeth

SKBARON

Aquinus

Resident Wat-man

Jstn7477

Jetster

ShadyDeth