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Laptop Screen Fried????
Help!
When I fired up the laptop yesterday it came up 180 degrees out phase… black is white, blue is orange, etc. I’ve looked at the calibration tool, detect settings uner monitor prefs, and rebooted over and over, but no luck. Is there some simple reset that I’m missing or is it toast?
I’m set up in the “B Unit” of a TV compund for a live event that I travel with, and have used an external monitor to get the edit suite up and running, but it’s a clunky work-around. Has anybody seen this before?
As always thanks for your time and input.
Bob
Bob DeLano
Fresh Roast TV, Charlotte NC
FCP 6, Dual 3 gig Quad Mac Pro
Twin 23″ Cinema Displays -
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My old G4 17″ Powerbook had the screen repaired twice and my old iBook G3 had the screen repaired once. You do have AppleCare, right? Laptops especially should have AppleCare plans.
They’ll send you an overnight box and it’ll be back to you in about 5 days.
In the meantime, use your workaround to finish the job, then ship it off.
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First open Universal Access in System Preferences and make sure that the enhance contrast is set to normal. That can definitely make the colors look funky.
If it is not that take it in and have it looked at, it may not be the LCD it could be the video card built onto the main board sending out a bad signal.
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I don’t know if you yourself inadvertently, or maybe a prankster, has switched the display to invert the colours perhaps…? If it is an exact reversal…then try going to the System Prefs, then Universal Access, then the Seeing Tab.
Is the display set to Black on White (which it should be by default) or has your prankster set it to White on Black…thus causing blue to become orange, and black to become white…? There’s a keyboard shortcut to do this also…which I forget right now.If your screen really is fritzed…maybe doing this reversal will switch it back close enough (for now) to get you through your immediate jobs…?
Good luck 🙂
BTW…this is an olde trick round our way…when a newbie steps out for lunch!
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Thanks to you all for you advice. When I plug in an external monitor to the laptop, the external monitor is fine and the lcd screen is negative. When I go to the universal setting and flip it to “black on white” in inverts them both, so my feeling is that it’s a screen problem rather than a graphics card. When the lcd screen is inverted the contrast and images are still pretty funky, and I’m not able to use that for packages in a live cable show, so I’ll stick with the external flat screen for now.
I was the last person to use the laptop at Road America two weeks ago, so no one would have been able to change the settings… guess it’s off to Apple Care once we get back from our job next week.
Thanks again for your thoughts…
Bob DeLano
Fresh Roast TV, Charlotte NC
FCP 6, Dual 3 gig Quad Mac Pro
Twin 23″ Cinema Displays
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