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Re: Laptop screen turns on completely white

Postby ar1stotle » Thu Jul 02, 2009 12:43 am

:( Is there actually hard drive activity or sound as if Windows was booting and it's just not displaying properly? Anything seem to be out of order other than the white screen?
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Re: Laptop screen turns on completely white

Postby JabbaPapa » Thu Jul 02, 2009 12:56 am

ar1stotle wrote::( Is there actually hard drive activity or sound as if Windows was booting and it's just not displaying properly? Anything seem to be out of order other than the white screen?


You missed that when he uses an external monitor, he can run Windows with it.

I still think that testing the rig by installing a fresh copy of Windows on a separate partition (with the external monitor plugged in) would have been a sensible means to see if this is a hardware or a software issue.
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Re: Laptop screen turns on completely white

Postby ar1stotle » Thu Jul 02, 2009 2:17 am

Ah, yea, guess I did miss that. And as far as testing with a fresh copy of windows, trying with a LiveCD would be about the same. But if he can't even see the boot menu or POST screens, I doubt that'll be any different. I wonder if anything actually changes if the laptop is booted with the video cable unplugged...?
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Re: Laptop screen turns on completely white

Postby phileysmiley » Thu Jul 02, 2009 4:39 am

I'm confused though. If Windows loads perfectly, the boot menu and POST screens run fine and everything is normal with my software on the external monitor, how can it be a software problem? Doesn't it have to be a hardware problem?
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Re: Laptop screen turns on completely white

Postby JabbaPapa » Thu Jul 02, 2009 8:26 am

phileysmiley wrote:I'm confused though. If Windows loads perfectly, the boot menu and POST screens run fine and everything is normal with my software on the external monitor, how can it be a software problem? Doesn't it have to be a hardware problem?


It is quite clearly most likely to be hardware, but software errors can sometimes be VERY strange ; mainly, it's just good practice to ensure that it's not software prior to any invasive attempts at a hardware fix.

But yes it's true, a Live CD is perfectly adequate to test this :yesnod:
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Re: Laptop screen turns on completely white

Postby phileysmiley » Thu Jul 02, 2009 4:34 pm

Gotcha. :yesnod: I'll try that, then.
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Re: Laptop screen turns on completely white

Postby phileysmiley » Thu Jul 02, 2009 10:28 pm

It boots into a live CD just fine.
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Re: Laptop screen turns on completely white

Postby phileysmiley » Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:51 pm

This looks like a good site. They seem to have just about every part for every laptop made. Here is the LCD screen page for my Toshiba Satellite A105-S2716

http://www.sparepartswarehouse.com/Tosh ... plays.aspx

Or I may just need an inverter:

http://www.sparepartswarehouse.com/Tosh ... rters.aspx

You can ship it to them and they will repair it and ship it back within 4 days.
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Re: Laptop screen turns on completely white

Postby JabbaPapa » Fri Jul 03, 2009 4:54 am

phileysmiley wrote:It boots into a live CD just fine.


"just fine" = whitescreen or no whitescreen ?

You need to run the live CD with the external monitor or not ? :)
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Re: Laptop screen turns on completely white

Postby phileysmiley » Fri Jul 03, 2009 4:57 am

JabbaPapa wrote:
phileysmiley wrote:It boots into a live CD just fine.


"just fine" = whitescreen or no whitescreen ?

You need to run the live CD with the external monitor or not ? :)

I'm confused.

1) When I run the live CD on the external monitor it boots the way it's supposed to.

2) When I run the live CD on the internal monitor I just get the white screen.
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