Acer Aspire One - Yellow screen after a knock (Now Fixed)

Alias_Omega

Acer Aspire One, 531h laptop.

Working fine, until a brief knock on the floor. When it boots from the Bios, the "ACER" is yellow, which was previously white.

When the laptop loads, Windows boot screen is absolutely fine. When Windows XP Home desktop loads, the screen goes into chaos with random black lines etc.

If a program is loaded, be it My Documents or IE the page becomes normal, sometimes split 50/50. If you maximise the IE page with Alt-Enter it clears up and I am writing this using the laptop now.

Sound works, just that the white is yellow, the yellow is white. If i goto the desktop, the page goes into chaos.

I am thinking that the graphics card may need a quick push back into place, or just leave the laptop power off for a bit.

I have some pictures, can upload them if anyone is really that interested.?

Any ideas?

Alias

Alias_Omega

The Bios setup screen was corrupted too, which indicated that the fault was not the operating system.

Followed a quick youtube guide on taking the laptop apart, re-seated (unplugged and replugged) the screen cable to the motherboard and the fault cleared.

In all, under 1hrs work with a set of watchmaker screw drivers. Less than 15 screws, a credit card to lift the keyboard/split the casing.

Pictures can be posted up if your interested, though its not very interesting.


The End..

Alias