z60t Display Smooshed

[Snort]

Display image is smooshed to the left, with small band of mirror image on the right. Windows XP, recent install without problems. Traveled on airplane in carry-on with no known drops before this happened. Here's a photo of the problem.

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id ... 478&size=o

Anyone know what the problem might be?

Thanks.

[cpascu01]

Something like that happened to me once, but it was horizontal. In my situation, the main wire connecting my screen to the motherboard of the laptop was damaged. I could get it to work my moving and twisting my screen, but I eventually needed to get a new one.

[BillMorrow]

rough handling can cause the video cable to come loose, though these problems have mostly been handled by new design plugs..

one time a new T23 arrived and a happy new owner opened the sealed carton and when powered on the display was dark..
it turned out to be a loose plug..

you can check this for yourself (you'll need the hardware maintenance manual, look up your models support page and select publications)..

another test would be to plug in an external display..
if it exhibits the same anomaly, then its either software or something really serious on the system board..

for software, try a different main drive..
assuming you have a spare drive..
or even boot into the bios..

try the easy tests first, obviously..

welcome to the planetwide thinkpad community..

[Snort]

Any chance it could be the inverter?

[Pepa]

Any chance it could be the inverter?

no way, inverter is making high voltage for backlight lamp. When is problem in inverter board your LCD backlight is flickering or not working (screen is very dark, but you can see picture which is fine).

You can try to connect your ThinkPad to external monitor. When your picture will be fine on external monitor, you are almost sure that mainboard (graphic card) is ok.

Then there is LVDS cable and LCD panel. In many cases is just LVDS cable, which can be broken or only semi-disconnected; thats not rare. And last common thing is bad LCD mainboard, which means that whole LCD panel have to be replaced.

[Snort]

welcome to the planetwide thinkpad community..

Thanks for the help and thanks for the forum greeting. I'll perform the monitor tests and pop it open to check the cable if it seems the likely suspect.