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LuLu

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  1. Aren't you glad I set it to "good"? :D

    Haha absolutely! But with me it will go back to evil eventually.  :P

     

    Wow, LuLu, thats good news.  Glad to hear it.  :)

    These days it seems a good idea to get the exended warranty.  

    Oh definitely. I always tell him to get them when he buys electronics. I bought one for my TV...which I still need to see about replacing since it's gone stupid too. lol Electronics and I do not mesh well at all haha

  2. Well my brother found the extended warranty papers. Looks like it may be a full replacement type of deal so that's what I'll be doing. If it has to be repaired, that's covered with the warranty as well. So either way I should be good. Thanks everyone for your help!

  3. Lulu what about your TV, can you connect the laptop to that?

    I found an HDMI and tried it. The picture on the TV was great. So I guess it's the screen or it's connection. Just once more reason why I hate laptops LOL

     

    may i ask you how long you use your laptop?

    I've had it for almost two years but don't use it often at all..maybe once a week...sometimes just once or twice a month. It definitely does not get heavy usage, so this issue has definitely pissed me off to some degree. 

  4. Cheap, quick, & easy thing to try (might not work, but worth 5 minutes :P ). 

    Turn it off, take out the battery, press and hold the power button for 30 seconds. 

    Then open & close the lid a few times. 

    Then put it all back, turn it on, & check. 

    Gave it the ol' college try and it didn't work.  :( But thanks!

  5. Lulu what about your TV, can you connect the laptop to that?

    Ummm not sure. Probably not since I'm sure it requires a cable I don't have lol But I'll check. 

     

    Cheap, quick, & easy thing to try (might not work, but worth 5 minutes :P ). 

    Turn it off, take out the battery, press and hold the power button for 30 seconds. 

    Then open & close the lid a few times. 

    Then put it all back, turn it on, & check. 

    I'm gonna give that a go! 

  6. Sounds like hazelnut is on the right path. I'd look up the "tear-down" instructions for your laptop (I know dell, hp and toshiba provide them on their websites, I assume the same is true for most laptop makers). In it look at how to disconnect the monitor (often it's a simple matter of removing a single piece of plastic) and check to see if the connecting wire (from monitor to laptop's body) isn't loose.

    That's exactly what I was hoping to avoid. lol My brother thinks he got the extended warranty on it when he bought it for me so if he can find the paperwork for that, I may just go that route. But if he didn't, then I'll definitely give that a shot. 

     

    grabbing an external monitor from somewhere (friend, neighbour) would be worthwhile as it would quickly pinpoint the problem.

     

    and just in the ever-so-slight chance, is the screen next to anything that could cause interference; speakers, microwaves (yeah I know), desk lamp etc?

    Yeah no one has a monitor that I can use. We all have the very old ones because everyone basically jumped ship to a laptop. 

     

    As far as interference, nope. I store it under my bed so it's out of harm's way and when I use it, it's while sitting on my bed or on the couch and it sits on a wooden TV tray thing. 

  7. Did this start after Microsoft Updates Tuesday on April 14th?

    I don't have it set to auto-update so I don't think that would be the issue. But maybe something downloaded anyway?

     

    LuLu,

    You don't need USB for an external monitor, as long as the laptop has some sort of 'video out' port, either DVI(digital), HDMI or VGA or D-SUB(analogue) and as long as you have an external screen with the matching port type then you can plug in an external monitor and see if it also looks the same way.

     

    If it does, it's your laptop with the issue, if it doesn't then it's your screen with the issue.

    Well what I meant was I don't have an external laptop compatible with the connections on my laptop. The monitor I have is about 10 years old, maybe older soo....lol

     

    Finally got to check this issue in Safe Mode and the colors are messed up. 

     

    Does anyone think that maybe this is because I haven't upgraded to 8.1 yet? What about just checking for a graphics update? Or does this just wreak of a hardware issue?

  8. The monitor I have isn't USB so I can't try that, unfortunately. 

     

    Haven't tried safe mode but will do so shortly. 

     

    No graphics updates. 

     

    Hinges are great. As tight as the day I took this sucker out of the box. And it's always opened from the center of the screen. I couldn't open it from the corner even if I wanted to because it just won't budge that way lol

  9. So I'm not sure if this is a software problem or a hardware problem. I used my laptop two days ago and everything was fine. Tonight I turn it on and there's a blue-green color that's taken over most areas that should be white. I tried shutting it down, letting it sit for a few minutes and turning it back on but it didn't seem to fix the problem. I'm not really sure what to do at this point. Any ideas from anyone out there? It's really giving me a major headache having to look at this. 

     

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  10. Oh Thank God For That.......

     

    It wasn't just me then, I have been biting my tongue ever since I saw that and thought, "Nah, it's just my dirty little mind".

    Phew - I'm normal - well, at least human. OK, let's settle on male then.

     

    HAHA well it probably is a bit of a dirty mind. And I have one sooo...

     

    Just needs a bikini waxing. :lol:

     

    Honestly, I didn't notice it till LuLu posted that.

    Leave it to me to say something LOL

  11. Your d-top Lulu. I love aquamarine shallow water caustics.

    (The enveloping surface formed by light rays reflecting or refracting from a curved surface, especially one with spherical aberration.) :)

    Very nice. I have a few more floating but none that I can use as a desktop (too low quality). 

  12. I'm not. lol 

     

    Side note: since freeing up the disk space, both the low RAM and paging file messages have stopped. She says her plan is to just wipe the drive after she buys her new laptop and just keep the bare minimum on it. 

  13. Thank you all for the replies! I do think it's a Netbook that she has, but I'm not positive. I know it's small. I will pass all of this info on to her and let her determine her next move with it. She did tell me she freed up more disk space and now has about 15-16 gigs free, so hopefully that is helping her problem. Again, I thank you all for your expertise!!

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