_Allan_
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Right story is m8's Sony Vaio laptop.
Can be turned on 5 minutes or 1 hour and red lines and dots will slowly appear on the screen at random. They gradually get worse but can disappear as quick as a window change to say google etc...
It seems like a screen issue and I know he hasn't changed anything on the laptop recenlty.
The time is random and location and it increases until quite bad but can go in an instant to only come back later on 
Any ideas or anyone had similar experience.
Thanks
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_Allan_
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Anyone?
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nyzrox
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Sounds like a connection issue mate, with the screen and vga... unless the screen its self is fucked.
if you can plug it into a external monitor and see if same appears
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PaulW
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happens alot on the sony screens
how old is the laptop? to be fair, sony will only honour a replacement under warranty if a total area of more than 7% coverage is affected, whereas a few dead pixels wont warrant 7%
best thing is see if you can find a replacement screen from eBay or somewhere else, or just get used to it...
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_Allan_
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quote:
Originally posted by PaulW
happens alot on the sony screens
how old is the laptop? to be fair, sony will only honour a replacement under warranty if a total area of more than 7% coverage is affected, whereas a few dead pixels wont warrant 7%
best thing is see if you can find a replacement screen from eBay or somewhere else, or just get used to it...
The pixels aren't dead though because they come back to life with a window change etc.. The laptop is well out of warranty and about 2-3 years old.
I could try to plug in an external monitor but I think it's his screen. 
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nyzrox
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i think maybe connection to vga mate
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_Allan_
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I checked the laptop before and as soon as it was tuned on. The icons on the screen (not all of them) were a bit weird colour wise and a few had red dots/lines in. I changed the screen properties no change. I then plugged in a monitor to the VGA port and no difference. The icons displayed were still fecked. So I don't think it's the TFT of the laptop.
Now could this be the graphics card within the laptop?. Are these easy to replace? or is it something else on the motherboard that controls the colours/graphics for icons etc?
Any more advice?
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