Laptop Screen Flicker Issue

[badfish2]

My laptop screen is flickering and shutting off from VERY SLIGHT movements at the hinge. I verified the flex cable connection is good at the motherboard (there really is no possibility of movement there anyway) so I'm going to replace the cable.

Opinions? I don't want to spend $30 to find out the screen is bad.

Thanks!

[TWoods450]

when it shuts off can you make out a faint picture on the screen?

[Fatstackz]

Plug in an external monitor, if that works your probably on the right track

[badfish2]

when it shuts off can you make out a faint picture on the screen?

No picture at all, goes out like the cable was unplugged on a desktop. Closing the lid and making the computer sleep then waking brings it back up.

[badfish2]

Plug in an external monitor, if that works your probably on the right track

Forgot to try that before I took it apart I'll put what I need to back together and see.

[JDay]

If a monitor works with it then it has to be the cable.

[bg]

Or inverter, or monitor is fixin' to go.

[NytWolf]

Try this to see if you can reproduce the problem:

- Leave the laptop on.
- Grab the two sides of the LCD, with thumbs on the front and your other things on the back.
- With your fingers and thumb, with minimal pressure try to flex the LCD panel towards and away from you.

If the screen still flickers as you've mentioned, it is pressure against the screen or electronics within the screen portion of your laptop.

What I did to fix mine is, I put a triple layer of poster board on the inside back cover of the LCD screen. It provides some pressure to keep the flickering away. When I did the above test to reproduce the flickering, I found that if I put pressure on the middle of the LCD, the screen did not flicker while closing or opening. Like yours, it wasn't the cable.