So i was having issues with vertical lines on my screen. After about half an hour they are now gone. This is easy and free. Look for part two on my page. :)
For those saying, "I just pressed the screen in the right place and it fixed it", my personal experience is that you can expect the lines to come back after a while, since you haven't really fixed the underlying problem of a bad connection.
If you fix it properly they will not come back. When you are doing this fix on a HDTV - the only way to fix it fully is to replace the screen entirely - however you cannot get replacement screens for HDTV's - so you have to do things like this to keep it working.
THANK-YOU! The laptop repair guy said it would take over £100 to fix my screen! I've literally just fixed it by watching your video. I didn't even have to slip anything in there, I just pressed down on the spot a couple times!
Thank you! I've had a vertical line through the center of my Thinkpad T440pscreen for a long time. Now it fixed! In my case I had to press down rather than pop up.
Great explanation! From what I've learned so far, if your screen is dim or have no display (confirming it is a display issue and not other hardware/software), good chance it's a video inverter board or cables running to it. Be it a bad connection at the connector on the inverter board or on the motherboard, or wires severing due to opening and closing of the lid. Green/pink lines, probably the screen itself. Or possibly wires between the inverter and the screen. The latter being unlikely tho, because the inverter and wires leading from the inverter to the screen are usually stationary.
This is very useful and informative, but to anyone attempting this while the laptop is on, fiddling around with screwdrivers and stuff around the "do not touch" isnt a really good idea, you could get electrified by the display inverter, which creates high voltages.
+F1nWarri0r But high voltage is not enough to cause major harm, you need also high amounts of amperes, an example: an electric spot welder only out puts 12v form the welding tip but also a huge amount of amperes which is enough to melt steel, meanwhile to feel a sting from static electricity you need over a million volts to compensate for the lack of amperes. These warning are for preventing people from frying the inverter, and those inverters are for power the screen backlight. Also LED screens don't have inverters since leds don't need high voltages to work
My school laptops are also Acers, not too long ago I opened my personal laptop up in our science class for work purposes and half my screen display was stuffed with lines and white blank areas. I went to the schools ICT person and told me that I "dropped my laptop"... It had been in my view the whole day in a protective cover and if not it was tucked safely away in my locker (in its case of course). I have no idea if he's bullshitting with me or not because when ever you press on certain areas behind the laptop the lines move or disappear like you said in this video. The only part that makes him truly believe that I dropped it was the fact that there was a bleed in my screen, he also said that in the insurance claim (which even with insurance the bill is still pretty big) I had to write that I dropped it, even though I know for sure I had done nothing with my laptop. It was fine the night before, in the morning as well and the whole day up until I pulled it out for science from cover.
Thank-You Karrissa ! .... I was able to Fix my "OLD" COMPAQ Presario C302NR Widescreen LCD laptop screen following your Video tutorial specially on time laps 5:10 . Yes, I realize it is a different bracket system but I played carefully around it and got it working again I learned a lot from doing this. The Solution on mine was to add//Shub in with a thin tiny screw driver a small piece of (what I had in hand) a small piece of Velcro material to one Side or Edge of the screen( it was thick enough) and it stayed in place This made it possible again for the Image to come back to my LCD screen. And when it doesn't I just JIGGLE IT a little and It comes back On. Hey!.. At least I don't have to go out and buy a new one. Thank-You Once Again for this Amazing Tutorial... Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year 2016 :O)
Hi guys the reason theres lines is due to the white plastic sheeting is loose. the screen itself has plasma in it. there is a silver see through sheet in between screen and white plastic panel. once loose on any section it causes this. just find the type tape used on laptop itself and replace it and be careful. it uses a certain amount of pressure a never touch the sticky on the tape or it will give out quicker and loose life. the are wires running up sides and a flimsy board at bottom of screen on back. never mess with it .. hope this info helps guys.
It has something to do with the screens layers releasing. the layers are sometimes attached to each other by a cohesive or just compressed together, this then gets separated and causes this to happen to your screen. Do to heat this can release, the air flow should go from the side and not from the screen side.
Thank you so much from the bottom of my wallet! Your solution worked for me! I was so tired of looking at that big block of lines in the middle of my screen. Whew.
Awesome.... well am gonna give this a try, though i have not purchased the laptop already, it's my friend own, he wanna sell it to me because of the vertical line on the screen, i pray this tutor works for me if i buy the pc next two weeks from now... thanks, i will comment my feedback when i give this a try....
Good job. Informative. After owning a series of Dell D series latitudes I got some skills at pulling these things apart. But that's more of a gpu issue then the screen itself. But good job.
No this is an issue with the display wires for the screen. It is from rough handling opening the screen or an manufacturing defect which has pinched the LCD display wires. A GPU issue is within the graphics card itself and the same lines will be mirrored when connecting to an external display and pushing on the LCD cables will not make it disappear.
Thanks for this video, I will also do it with my laptop, I was thinking I am gonna change screen, but after this video there is some possibility to fix it, thanks for this solution
Thanks for an informative video. I have an Acer chromebook 14 which showed the intermitent vertical lines on about 1/2 the screen. I tried something else first. I opened the back. disconnected the battery, and then removed and pushed back in the screen connectors. This worked for me. If the lines come back, its good to know/try your approach too.
Hi, I really hope you post more videos - this one was a great start. You communicate very clearly and I believe, with a bit of work on the production, you could have a hit channel. Cheers!
I had the vertical line problem on my laptop, too. I tried pressing my thumbs lightly at the top and bottom of the vertical lines, and they immediately disappeared! I have no idea why this worked, but it did !
Maybe someone will find this info and be helped even today. I have an Acer Aspire 7 with Nvidida GTX 1050ti. When I was gaming the screen started to flicker. It got worse over the last weeks. Then it started to go black at times. Playing games might make the screen slightly warmer, idk, because that's when it would start to act up. I didn't have the "lines" she mentioned in the video. My problems were much worse. Anyway...I opened the screen and did what she did, slight pressing or lifting with a toothpick at the bottom part, bellow the screen-area. I found an area that made the screen stable when I lifted it up slighty. Made an inlay with cardboard and electric tape just like she did and put it under that spot. Now it works again!!! (I already tried disconnecting the screen cable and cleaned the connector earlier so I knew it wasn't that.)
i tried and now the half of my screen is dead :') guys if you are gonna try it out please be careful and be sure its the type of laptop that will not break by that process!
i tried the same and in my case i have ended up with one extra line, old ones are still there, also i have broken my bracket, but still not worse than yours.
!!!hi Karissa worked perfectly !thanks p.s i think this happens from lack of support in the middle of the screen when its closed, so it get bended. my solution was to create support using elc tape.
Thanks so much! I have a different brand of laptop but pressed exactly where you said and poof... They're gone. I didn't have to remove the screen though. I know they'll probably return if I don't take care when handling my laptop. Again thanks!
thnq thnq thnq ssoooo much it works (y) and now i dont have annoying lines on my pc u just have to find that one spot by pressing gently on either sides of your laptop and on a certain point you will find that your line is getiing effected by ur press soo here it is just press gently and u will find ur laptop will go vertical lines free :)
When do you study to programmer in another contry that dont understand english, but you understood what happened on this video. Yeah professional looking activated .
try this at your own risk, I have broken my bracket and lines are still there with an extra one, not for crude hands. but still if this works than this can save a lot of time, money, and I don't think even with an extra line I am worse than before, be careful though. do this knowing that you can end up with worse.
Please. The issue is caused by the connectors. Most commonly by the connector that connects the wire from the video card to the car at the back of the screen. Remove it. reinstall it and tap it so that it doesnt move. ( Or the other end of the same cable at the laptop end ). If that doesnt fix it, it the connectors at the actual LCD. which is beyond diy.
These lines used to appear when my laptop gets too hot. Now I ended up in this video again because the lines wont go away. It's very annoying. The little press with a soft cloth doesnt work anymore.
