Busted Laptop LCD Screen Troubleshooting
Here’s Quick Diagnosis Tip for a Dead Laptop LCD Display
Sony Vaio Laptop
This LCD troubleshooting article is a guest post from Gerald Potratz of Finest Laptops
If you are a laptop computer owner, sooner or later (believe you me) you are going to be faced with a unit that has a display problems that has gone dark typically in one of two scenarios. The most common case is when the LCD screen is damaged due to some physical event that cracked or broke the display screen. Laptops hate gravity and do not take kindly to being dropped, especially when the case is flapped open just when gravity happens and the accident occurrs. The other case involves no physical damage and a malfunction in the video, power or control circuitry has caused the display to cease functioning normally.
In the case of the cracked or physically damaged LCD display, you need to ascertain if there is other damage to the laptop. The best and easiest way to do this is to get an external monitor plug it to the laptop using the provided output connector at the rear of the laptop case. If the external monitor works and you see that your programs and applications are working and your files are accessible, then chances are the damage is isolated only to the LCD screen and that your data can be recovered if in case you decide not to repair the screen anymore. Even if you choose not to repair the laptop, this situation is actually the best case scenario of a really bad situation. At least your data could be saved!
If the laptop screen has not been physically ruined by a fall or otherwise, but the screen is not displaying anything, you should try to connect an external monitor as described above and determine if the rest of the laptop is functional. In the case where the screen is totally blank and the external monitor you plugged in doesn’t work, then a more expensive diagnosis and repair scenario will probably be your only option. Or, you could
It is recommended to take these basic steps first before you get a repair person involved. You should think through your repair options before you are confronted with a potentially costly repair decision.
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