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Article #3042Re: Thinkpad 750Cs Lower Half of Screen Oddity
From: Rajesh Varia
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 00:00
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 00:00
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In article <830106236snz@longley.demon.co.uk>, David Longley <David@longley.demon.co.uk> writes >I have an IBM Thinkpad 750Cs, Dual Scan Colour notebook. Over the pst two >days it's started to show some odd symptoms in the lower half of the display >at boot up. It's corrected by a light tap to the side of the lid. > >Symptom: Vertical lines appear on the lower half of the display, and they >seem to be the three primary colours. It's as if the convergence has drifted, >though I undrstand that this is not the way a dual scan works. > >I plan to take it to an IBM service point as it is still under warranty. The >first year was only up last November, and I understand it is covered by a 3 >year warranty. > >Can someone explain what it's likely to be? > I have seen similiar problems in other ThinkPads and it has almost always been the ribbon cable. If the ThinkPad is still under warrenty then IBM will replace the cable, current turnaround seems to be 3-4 days. -- Rajesh Varia raj@c4rv.demon.co.uk Turnpike evaluation. For Turnpike information, mailto:info@turnpike.com
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10c6a1,eb3e40f0dc31fd20 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c6a1,public X-Google-Thread: 1036bc,eb3e40f0dc31fd20 X-Google-Attributes: gid1036bc,public X-Google-Thread: 1131b0,eb3e40f0dc31fd20 X-Google-Attributes: gid1131b0,public From: Rajesh Varia <raj@c4rv.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: Thinkpad 750Cs Lower Half of Screen Oddity Date: 1996/04/22 Message-ID: <TqkkxCAIJAfxEwlM@c4rv.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 150923942 distribution: world x-nntp-posting-host: c4rv.demon.co.uk references: <830106236snz@longley.demon.co.uk> organization: @ Home mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.periphs,sci.electronics.repair,demon.tech.pc