Tried two reboots: both times, green lines appeared on the screen as it started up. There appears to be a connection between the pressure that's on the machine, and the lines appearing. The more pressure I put on the keyboard, the more lines appear; the more I push up from the bottom, the more the lines disappear (although they're still there to some degree). At this point, this thing's been through its paces and it's time I upgraded to something that's not a comparative dinosaur.
I second Jayml's recommendation re: cleaning the fucker out, because it sounds to me like one of three progressively not-happy things: 1, crud in/around the GPU (should be fine if you clean it out); 2, the cord between said GPU and the screen (not so great, since it requires a new cord and someone to thread it for you); and 3, the logic board saying "fuck all y'all, I'm going home" (this last one also translates to "buy a new one, cause it sure ain't worth fixing.") Of course, you are running Windows, so you might just need to reinstall the OS to clear up whatever's messing with you, but I'd save that for situations 2 and 3. As far as a new model, you know what I'm gonna say ^_^.
Best of luck, bro. Call me sometime, it's been too long. And you're never on chat. Ya bum.
if the screen is still working but flickering in pretty colors it is either something on the logic board, which means your fucked. Alternatively it could be the cable running from the logic to the actual display. In that case it would be fairly inexpensive to fix.
Screen still works, except for the pretty lines that show up every time I boot. Windows refuses to actually properly boot, instead giving me either a black screen with my cursor (frozen, no respose to keyboard commands), or just a blank screen. I can still boot in Safe Mode, though; I've backed up pretty much everything I want to save from the machine. Still makes more lines if I push on the case around the keyboard. I'm going to take it in to a shop tomorrow and see if I need to totally replace it or not.
Thing is, the problem popped up completely out of the blue during normal usage, under no adverse conditions. Sounds like a death rattle to me.
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Best of luck, bro. Call me sometime, it's been too long. And you're never on chat. Ya bum.
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Does it actually fully boot?
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Thing is, the problem popped up completely out of the blue during normal usage, under no adverse conditions. Sounds like a death rattle to me.
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