Let me guess, the affected bar is exactly one eighth the width of the
screen. Have there been any heavy weights or large forces applied to the
lid of the Duo? I had a 2300c display that had two vertical bars that
displayed garbage. However if I pressed one of the connectors on the
board that runs horizonally on the back of the LCD at bottom of the LCD
panel just rignt the screen would clear up and display images properly.
If I didn't press it just right however that color would vary somewhat in
a way similar to what you describe. Now without disassembling the lid,
you could try to press on the back of the lid near the bottom of the lid
below the LCD screen, in the middle of the strip. To do this you might
have to press the case rather hard. I'm not going to claim any
responsibility if you break the lid by trying this. From what I could
tell, if this is the case, the screen needs to be replaced. One solution
that might sort of work would be you could open the lid up and put a few
layers of masking tape over the bad connector so that the tape provides
some pressure when the lid is reassembled and this may clear up the
problem. Of course it is entirely possible that the display cable is bad
needs to be replaced.
Ryan
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Richard Chisa and Isaac McIntyre wrote:
> I have a strange Vertical strip on my 2300c display that is about 2cm wide
> and seems to not display all the colors in the 256 range it has so any color
> (apart from a few)has a slightly lighter lighter area in this strip area.
> This is real strnge and it has just happened recently and is getting a tiny
> bit worse (ie affected colors are becoming more). It works fine on my Apple
> Moniter, it is just the actual powerbook display that seems to be affected.
> I think it may have happened when I opened it up to see if the RAM was
> connected properly. Is there something I could have touched to have made
> this bodge up on the display?? Any Advice??
>
> Thanks
>
> Rich
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