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Gateway solo 5350 problem with screen

left home for a few hours and left my laptop on and came home and saw the screen was white and this thing is never abused or even used much but its like flashing full screen white then comes back to normal screen and no amount of moving it around or closing the screen etc makes it change , it has a mind of its own and so i rebooted it and even while booting it does this back n forth ... so i hooked it up to my flatscreen and boooted it and no problem there ,,was working just fine ,, so my question is , does this thing have maybe a bad filter or power supply issue that would cause this ???? im very sure its common for the gateway so i figured i would ask here ... please enlighten me , i sure the heck dont wanna send it to gateway as i heard they are terrible to deal with ... thanks , Harris

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bloggybob
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Probably the flat is damaged, open the notebook and touch it if the symphtoms vary change it

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buran

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Check the cable from the screen where it plugs into the motherboard, the ribbon cable connector occasionally gets flakey.

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James Sweet

If the screen whites out it definitely isn't the inverter, that would cause the screen to go completely dark. It sounds to me like the typical symptoms of a cracked LCD ribbon cable. Either that or the electronics on the LCD is failing.

Dave

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Dave D

yeah , i have to agree with you that the inverter is fine at this point .. oh well i guess its time to send it to gateway .. would be better to do that then guess at buying parts , that could possibly cost me more .... thanks to all who replied ....

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Fx

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