Morticia
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This is getting to be MY sob story. I've killed another Dell laptop. I think this one may no longer be under warranty. If anyone would car to offer advice, I'm open to try repairing it myself. Here's the deal...
Last week the left side of the monitor started getting a little wavy. This week it was a full out flicker across the whole monitor. Yesterday the screen went black. It will come back on randomly, work for a little bit and then go black again.
I read up on some forums and tried working just off the battery (which is newish...maybe 3 weeks old at this point) and that worked yesterday, but not today.
So I'm just on the external monitor now and it's hideously ugly. It's a boat anchor size. I'll use it until I figure out if this is the video card (which makes sense) or the monitor (which doesn't make sense because the screen randomly lights up and everything is there).
Help appreciated!
I am not at the point of buying a new computer. When I am, I would take suggestions on that as well!
Last week the left side of the monitor started getting a little wavy. This week it was a full out flicker across the whole monitor. Yesterday the screen went black. It will come back on randomly, work for a little bit and then go black again.
I read up on some forums and tried working just off the battery (which is newish...maybe 3 weeks old at this point) and that worked yesterday, but not today.
So I'm just on the external monitor now and it's hideously ugly. It's a boat anchor size. I'll use it until I figure out if this is the video card (which makes sense) or the monitor (which doesn't make sense because the screen randomly lights up and everything is there).
Help appreciated!
I am not at the point of buying a new computer. When I am, I would take suggestions on that as well!