Vertical lines on screen

[sirsaechao]

I have a 3 year old Dell 2200 Inspiron laptop. Recently...there are more and more vertical lines. Updated the drivers...nothing. I don't have a VGA cord to hook up to a external monitor to check. Anyone one what else I can do?

 

[rezonat0r]

My bet is that it is a defect in the LCD panel. If the lines don't appear in VGA output, it's definitely the LCD and not the video card, in which case, replace the LCD.

 

[Inverted08]

humm. i think it might be your hertz? go to control panel, change your hertz to around 75, this way you wont get lines.. but thats horizontal lines, which is not your problem, does this occur while playing games? or just all the time.

 

[sirsaechao]

It occurs all the time. I found a VGA cord and hooked it up to a external monitor and it don't show on my external monitor leading me to think it is the LCD panel.