uneven lines in light colors on lcd screen

Archived from groups: comp.sys.laptops (More info?)

Check your display settings and make sure that they are set to 16
million colors. Beyond that, without seeing it, it's not possible for
me to offer much of a comment on it.


Christopher wrote:

> Dear all-
>
> While I've found many symptoms for failing screens via the use groups,
> I can't seem to find mention of an issue like the one I'm having:
>
> My brand new (<2 mths old) IBM T41 laptop is having some newfound
> display issues. The color quality is fine overall, but recently I've
> seen that the display of what should be a solid light color is in fact
> made of a few different shades in random stripings of lines.
> Sometimes, these lines move like TV static if something moves through
> their approximate path, and the mouse pointer often has a 'halo' in a
> square pattern about it.
>
> I believe I noted this first after I downloaded and installed
> OpenOffice for what it's worth, and when using OO and the Macromedia
> Studio MX I recently installed, I've noticed that the mouse pointer
> has a vertical line that tags along with it in these applications
> _only_.
>
> The system is running XP Pro, has an ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 XVGA,
> running at 1400 x 1050.
>
> Any information or pointers are greatly welcomed, and any offline
> transactions can be directed towards:
>
> neural_plasticity at hotmail dot com
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Christopher