Hello all,
I have scoured the internet in search of answers for how I might fix my lcd, but have found nothing which sounds like my particular case, and am now turning to posting my own story in hopes someone can advise.
I'm going to risk giving too much information. 2 things occurred which may have caused the line of lcd's. I feel almost sure it is only one of these 2, but I'll mention both.
I'm using a toshiba satellite 5205-s703 laptop. I took it apart because of a fan issue, and thus disconnected.. well, most everything. I put it all back together, and everything was working fine (but there was a limited time frame to determine). Then I cleaned my screen. I used a 1:1 isopropanol:water mix.. I read quite some time ago where lcd cleaning products were composed of this, so I made it myself (used DI water for what it's worth). In rubbing the screen, at some point I noticed a flicker, sort of a line flicker I guess, in the area where I now have a row of dead/stuck pixels. But I just barely noticed this, and it went right away. Laptop seemed fine, I put it in my bag, took it home, and upon reopening, a line of red pixels.
I massaged a bit, and they went away. next day, they were back. This went on this way for a few rounds. The line runs from top to bottom. Oh, I should mention I reseated the lcd cabling once more prior to trying massage and it did not help. Only pressing at the top of the line does any good. If I apply a little bit of pressure, it just goes away (and all the pixels in that line show the correct color). Eventually, the line persisted, it would go away for a very short time, then come back. Then it changed to purple, then blue, now white, and pretty permanent. If I apply pressure, it still goes away, but only with pressure applied at the top of the screen, while pressure is applied. As soon as I take my finger off, line returns.
Nobody out there seems to have this same issue, but surely someone has. It seems to me that while there is a hardware problem of some sort, clearly it's fixable at some level (since I can "fix" it by applying pressure). At this point I'd be happy if it was a dead pixel up there and the ones below it would just work okay.. the line is kind of annoying. I tried a few of the dead pixel type fixing programs (with flashy colors), but they don't seem to do anything, and at this point the pure massage doesn't seem to help (maybe it even hurt, since the problem only got worse in the long run).
Does anyone have any ideas on this one? I would be uber-appreciative.
I have scoured the internet in search of answers for how I might fix my lcd, but have found nothing which sounds like my particular case, and am now turning to posting my own story in hopes someone can advise.
I'm going to risk giving too much information. 2 things occurred which may have caused the line of lcd's. I feel almost sure it is only one of these 2, but I'll mention both.
I'm using a toshiba satellite 5205-s703 laptop. I took it apart because of a fan issue, and thus disconnected.. well, most everything. I put it all back together, and everything was working fine (but there was a limited time frame to determine). Then I cleaned my screen. I used a 1:1 isopropanol:water mix.. I read quite some time ago where lcd cleaning products were composed of this, so I made it myself (used DI water for what it's worth). In rubbing the screen, at some point I noticed a flicker, sort of a line flicker I guess, in the area where I now have a row of dead/stuck pixels. But I just barely noticed this, and it went right away. Laptop seemed fine, I put it in my bag, took it home, and upon reopening, a line of red pixels.
I massaged a bit, and they went away. next day, they were back. This went on this way for a few rounds. The line runs from top to bottom. Oh, I should mention I reseated the lcd cabling once more prior to trying massage and it did not help. Only pressing at the top of the line does any good. If I apply a little bit of pressure, it just goes away (and all the pixels in that line show the correct color). Eventually, the line persisted, it would go away for a very short time, then come back. Then it changed to purple, then blue, now white, and pretty permanent. If I apply pressure, it still goes away, but only with pressure applied at the top of the screen, while pressure is applied. As soon as I take my finger off, line returns.
Nobody out there seems to have this same issue, but surely someone has. It seems to me that while there is a hardware problem of some sort, clearly it's fixable at some level (since I can "fix" it by applying pressure). At this point I'd be happy if it was a dead pixel up there and the ones below it would just work okay.. the line is kind of annoying. I tried a few of the dead pixel type fixing programs (with flashy colors), but they don't seem to do anything, and at this point the pure massage doesn't seem to help (maybe it even hurt, since the problem only got worse in the long run).
Does anyone have any ideas on this one? I would be uber-appreciative.