Occasional screen flicker (HP Pavilion dv5-1010us)

Greetings,

I bought my HP Pavilion dv5-1010us Entertainment pc precisely the Labor Day 2008 due to a current sale.

The screen tends to flicker in mostly white with thin bars of color (reflecting the colours that are supposed to be shown) vertical to the Center and some goes horizontal upward.

The problem arose only recently, and it appears sporadically. Sometimes he just blinks a couple seconds, then returns to normal and doesn't happen for a while. Other times, he'll almost constantly, and I don't see what I'm doing.

Also, sometimes, before or after the screen flashed, thick horizontal bars darken the screen and move up and down several times, vaguely remenisant for when you take a video of television or similar, and horizontal bars scrolling down it.

It seems to happen also only usually when a) the lapotp isn't on a resistant surface, small tremors every now and again because of the surface, and b) whenever I have tilt the screen.

Sometimes, just put the screen to another post he corrects, but most of the time, I just have to wait until it stops flashing.

I am running Vista Home Premium 64-bit,

graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce 9200 M GS

in Device Manager, it says the driver is 'Generic PnP monitor', but he also says that it's the updated driver.

(Short version)

Specifications of the computer:

Vista Home Premium 64-bit

nVidia GeForce 9200 M GS

'Generic PnP monitor' pilot

Question: Screen flickers sporadically mainly white with a few fine lines color when the laptop screen is tilted or unstable and sometimes at very random times.

The problem only recently.

I called earlier to HP support. (Sometimes at the begginning of the month).

There was nothing that they could do over the phone, so they sent me a box on 2 days shipping from FedEx.

Got the box and sent my laptop. They received it the 7 and 8 sent using FedEx. I got it on the 10th.

From what I can tell, it's a brand new screen. The top of my laptop (the back of the monitor) had a few minor and cosmetic scratches in the surface of the it normal wear and tear when I sent it. When I got the laptop repaired, there is a movie on top of the laptop (the back of the screen). I peeled off the power, and there is no scratches whatsoever.

Certainly it's even portable, although (my touchpad has a few marks on it, too, normal wear and tear.) I often use this machine. ). Therefore, a new screen.

The left side is also is no longer loose at all, and it works exactly as it should.

I used every day since I got back and have had no problems or issues at all the.

The only solution seems to be to send in, unfortunately. On the positive side, however, it only took about 7 business days after I got out the phone with them for me to have the back already.

I called on a Tuesday evening has obtained the box this Thursday evening when I'm off work, he left FedEx on Friday, they got it on the following Tuesday, and he had fixed and shipped Wednesday, for me to have received this Friday.

In short, it is a pity that the screen stopped working properly, it was not too scary to little more than a week without it.

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