Acer Aspire 5630 Laptop screen/display problem

"Pete Zahut" <dont@bother> wrote in
news:f6ydneNw36CLwmHUnZ2dnUVZ8j-dnZ2d@bt.com:

> Fixer, I owe you a pint - a œ12GBP secondhand LCD cable from Ebay
> sorted the problem. Thanks very much mate, and to all who took the
> time to try and help
>)
>
> Pete
>

Don't you just love the look on the other people's faces around you when
you've troubleshot some complex problem successfully on the other side of
the planet by remote control?......(c;]



I fixed a Russian TV set in Siberia for a guy who was stumped, from here in
South Carolina. One of my friends, here, was sitting in my little messy
computer room when the Skype call from Siberia came in thanking me for
fixing his TV.

The look on my friend's face was simply PRICELESS. He still thinks I'm
some kind of genius....hee hee...(c;]



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Larry
You can tell there's very intelligent life in the Universe
because none of them have ever tried to contact us.....

Larry wrote:
> "Pete Zahut" <dont@bother> wrote in
> news:f6ydneNw36CLwmHUnZ2dnUVZ8j-dnZ2d@bt.com:
>
>> Fixer, I owe you a pint - a o12GBP secondhand LCD cable from Ebay
>> sorted the problem. Thanks very much mate, and to all who took the
>> time to try and help
>>> o)
>>
>> Pete
>>
>
> Don't you just love the look on the other people's faces around you
> when you've troubleshot some complex problem successfully on the
> other side of the planet by remote control?......(c;]
>
>
>
> I fixed a Russian TV set in Siberia for a guy who was stumped, from
> here in South Carolina. One of my friends, here, was sitting in my
> little messy computer room when the Skype call from Siberia came in
> thanking me for fixing his TV.
>
> The look on my friend's face was simply PRICELESS. He still thinks
> I'm some kind of genius....hee hee...(c;]

Yeah, it truly is the spirit of USENET and the internet and it gives you a
warm fuzzy feeling knowing that you've helped someone. This particular
problem was well beyond me (never messed with laptops before) but in general
I'm not so bad with computers and I use PCHelpware to remotely access
friends and family member's computers when they need help.

One particular friend believes I'm in league with Satan and should be burned
at the stake as he sits there, 200 miles away, watching me move his cursor
and doing what needs to be done )

"Pete Zahut" <dont@bother> wrote in
news:mbGdnRyt9I8nx2DUnZ2dnUVZ8sSdnZ2d@bt.com:

> One particular friend believes I'm in league with Satan and should be
> burned at the stake as he sits there, 200 miles away, watching me move
> his cursor and doing what needs to be done )
>
>
>

I run my boxes remotely from my little N800 Linux tablet using rdesktop to
WinXP's Remote Desktop quite a bit. The Winbox is always online, so why
not let it do all the heavy lifting and storage then access just one email
client, for example, instead of all this multiple email clients and the
troubles associated with "syncing" the remote computer to the main
computers. Because the tablet's rdesktop requires a separate keyboard, or
use the crappy virtual keyboard on the WinXP box over the net, I use a
rollup rubber keyboard stored in the car if I need it to type something.

Works great for me. No syncing, less wasted space on the remote box....you
just can hear the audio and the link's not near fast enough for any videos.

"Let me check that email from 1998 on my main computer.", I say popping up
the main email on the little tablet way off somewhere. They always look so
astonished I have such remote access. They really need to learn how to USE
Windows or Linux past the basic web browser and desktop....



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Larry
You can tell there's very intelligent life in the Universe
because none of them have ever tried to contact us.....

Hi Pete,

I've got exactly the same fault with my beloved 5920g as you had... one
day the screen just seemed to be squeezed into part of the TFT. All of the
desktop is displayed but a fair portion of the screen is black down one
side. I was massively relieved to see you had found a solution, but having
looked for a cable in the UK and failed... I'm starting to lose hope.

Any suggestions for where I can track one down, and what the procedure is
to replace it?

Cheers,

Mark.

Pete Zahut wrote:

> Fixer wrote:
>> "Pete Zahut" <dont@bother> wrote in message
>> news:9qidnbzMK-EsA2zUnZ2dnUVZ8vSdnZ2d@bt.com...
>>> Paul wrote:
>>>> Pete Zahut wrote:
>>>>> Got the above laptop and it's just developed a problem
>>>>> with the
>>>>> screen/display - there's a 65mm column at the
>>>>> right-hand side of
>>>>> the display that's gone dark. Applications open up
>>>>> properly and
>>>>> you can see the whole width of the app, but it doesn't
>>>>> go the
>>>>> whole width of the screen - sort of full display but
>>>>> not full
>>>>> screen if you see what I mean. Also, don't know if
>>>>> it's relevant
>>>>> or not but the taskbar at the bottom seems to be twice
>>>>> as tall as
>>>>> normal and isn't drag-able back to it's usual size -
>>>>> cursor also
>>>>> distorts in this area. I'm not explaining it very
>>>>> well, so have a
>>>>> look at this photo:
>>>>>
>>>>>
http://s137.photobucket.com/albums/q...nt=laptop1.jpg
>>>>>
>>>>> At first I thought it may be a display driver issue
>>>>> but I've
>>>>> uninstalled and reinstalled without success. I've also
>>>>> used a
>>>>> program called #1-TuffTest Pro
>>>>> (http://www.tufftest.com/ttp01.htm)
>>>>> that is self-booting, operating system independent and
>>>>> never goes
>>>>> anywhere near Windows, but shows the same results, so
>>>>> I would say
>>>>> that that rules out any Windows driver issues. Picture
>>>>> of that test
>>>>> here:
>>>>>
>>>>>
http://s137.photobucket.com/albums/q...nt=laptop2.jpg
>>>>>
>>>>> Any ideas what's wrong and how to fix it?
>>>>>
>>>>> TIA,
>>>>>
>>>>> Pete
>>>>
>>>> Have you done a graphics driver update recently ?
>>>
>>> No - uninstalled and reinstalled driver to try to fix the
>>> problem,
>>> but not updated.
>>>
>>>> It looks like a mismatch, between the actual LCD panel,
>>>> and what the software thinks it is driving.
>>>>
>>>> Paul
>>>
>>> Yeah, I'd agree with you there Paul - except for the fact that
>>> I've
>>> even used the Recovery CD/Partition to restore the laptop to
>>> the
>>> state it was in when it left the factory and the display is
>>> still
>>> faulty even then.
>>
>>
>> Ok the way to tell if its hardware or software causing the
>> problem
>> is when the machine starts to boot drop into the BIOS whatever it
>> is
>> for your laptop, F2 for Dells , Del for some others but anyway
>> whatever it is for your machine. If the problem is there in when
>> you
>> look in the BIOS its the LCD panel or Cable or Motherboard port.
>> IF
>> it's not there then it's a driver/application, error. Of course
>> you
>> could also connect it to an external monitor and again if its
>> there
>> then its the grapghics card or motherboard port or
>> software/drivers
>> and if its not there then it's the LCD or cable

> Fixer, I owe you a pint - a £12GBP secondhand LCD cable from Ebay
> sorted the
> problem. Thanks very much mate, and to all who took the time to try and
> help
> )

> Pete




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In article <4a563c96$0$14992$796edc2@news.usenetserver.com> , malarky
says...
>
> Hi Pete,
>
> I've got exactly the same fault with my beloved 5920g as you had... one
> day the screen just seemed to be squeezed into part of the TFT. All of the
> desktop is displayed but a fair portion of the screen is black down one
> side. I was massively relieved to see you had found a solution, but having
> looked for a cable in the UK and failed... I'm starting to lose hope.
>
> Any suggestions for where I can track one down, and what the procedure is
> to replace it?
>
Ebay. Just getting one in to do next week.

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Hi Mark,

All I can say is Ebay for the cable and then download a manual from here

http://www.tim.id.au/blog/tims-lapto...uals/#toc-acer

HTH,

Pete

malarky wrote:
> Hi Pete,
>
> I've got exactly the same fault with my beloved 5920g as you had...
> one day the screen just seemed to be squeezed into part of the TFT.
> All of the desktop is displayed but a fair portion of the screen is
> black down one side. I was massively relieved to see you had found a
> solution, but having looked for a cable in the UK and failed... I'm
> starting to lose hope.
>
> Any suggestions for where I can track one down, and what the
> procedure is to replace it?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark.
>
> Pete Zahut wrote:
>
>> Fixer wrote:
>>> "Pete Zahut" <dont@bother> wrote in message
>>> news:9qidnbzMK-EsA2zUnZ2dnUVZ8vSdnZ2d@bt.com...
>>>> Paul wrote:
>>>>> Pete Zahut wrote:
>>>>>> Got the above laptop and it's just developed a problem
>>>>>> with the
>>>>>> screen/display - there's a 65mm column at the
>>>>>> right-hand side of
>>>>>> the display that's gone dark. Applications open up
>>>>>> properly and
>>>>>> you can see the whole width of the app, but it doesn't
>>>>>> go the
>>>>>> whole width of the screen - sort of full display but
>>>>>> not full
>>>>>> screen if you see what I mean. Also, don't know if
>>>>>> it's relevant
>>>>>> or not but the taskbar at the bottom seems to be twice
>>>>>> as tall as
>>>>>> normal and isn't drag-able back to it's usual size -
>>>>>> cursor also
>>>>>> distorts in this area. I'm not explaining it very
>>>>>> well, so have a
>>>>>> look at this photo:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
> http://s137.photobucket.com/albums/q...nt=laptop1.jpg
>>>>>>
>>>>>> At first I thought it may be a display driver issue
>>>>>> but I've
>>>>>> uninstalled and reinstalled without success. I've also
>>>>>> used a
>>>>>> program called #1-TuffTest Pro
>>>>>> (http://www.tufftest.com/ttp01.htm)
>>>>>> that is self-booting, operating system independent and
>>>>>> never goes
>>>>>> anywhere near Windows, but shows the same results, so
>>>>>> I would say
>>>>>> that that rules out any Windows driver issues. Picture
>>>>>> of that test
>>>>>> here:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
> http://s137.photobucket.com/albums/q...nt=laptop2.jpg
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any ideas what's wrong and how to fix it?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> TIA,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Pete
>>>>>
>>>>> Have you done a graphics driver update recently ?
>>>>
>>>> No - uninstalled and reinstalled driver to try to fix the
>>>> problem,
>>>> but not updated.
>>>>
>>>>> It looks like a mismatch, between the actual LCD panel,
>>>>> and what the software thinks it is driving.
>>>>>
>>>>> Paul
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, I'd agree with you there Paul - except for the fact that
>>>> I've
>>>> even used the Recovery CD/Partition to restore the laptop to
>>>> the
>>>> state it was in when it left the factory and the display is
>>>> still
>>>> faulty even then.
>>>
>>>
>>> Ok the way to tell if its hardware or software causing the
>>> problem
>>> is when the machine starts to boot drop into the BIOS whatever it
>>> is
>>> for your laptop, F2 for Dells , Del for some others but anyway
>>> whatever it is for your machine. If the problem is there in when
>>> you
>>> look in the BIOS its the LCD panel or Cable or Motherboard port.
>>> IF
>>> it's not there then it's a driver/application, error. Of course
>>> you
>>> could also connect it to an external monitor and again if its
>>> there
>>> then its the grapghics card or motherboard port or
>>> software/drivers
>>> and if its not there then it's the LCD or cable
>
>> Fixer, I owe you a pint - a £12GBP secondhand LCD cable from Ebay
>> sorted the
>> problem. Thanks very much mate, and to all who took the time to try
>> and
>> help
>>> o)
>
>> Pete
>
>
>
>
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