LCD Image off center (IBM Thinkpad T21)

Archived from groups: ibm.ibmpc.thinkpad,comp.sys.laptops (More info?)

Take off the keyboard and re-seat the video cable.
Do this with the machine UNPLUGGED from power.

On 29 Jan 2005 05:05:06 -0800, jpaulo@meganet.pt (Jorge) wrote:

>Hi,
>
>my Thinkpad T21 started to show the folowing behaviour:
>Sometimes the desktop is not centered on the LCD, it's position
>appears about 200 pixels down and to the right. The problem show up as
>soon as the machine is turned on (during the POST). It doesn't have to
>boot windows. For a while all I had to do was shutdown and boot again
>and the problem went away but now it's worst.
>I don't believe it related to display settings in Windows or in the
>BIOS because the problems comes and goes without changes in them.
>My resolution is 1024x768x32. I tryed others but it doesn't matter -
>the top left corner is always far down and to the right from were it
>was supposed to be.
>
>I got the impression that if I opened and closed the doors on the
>docking port it would help but I'm not sure anymore.
>
>Anyone can give me a clue about what I can do to solve the problem?
>
>TIA,
>Jorge

Archived from groups: ibm.ibmpc.thinkpad,comp.sys.laptops (More info?)

Hi Bruce,

Thank you very much, this also worked for me.

Best regards,
Jorge

scosgt@worldnet.att.net (Bruce Markowitz) wrote in message news:<41fc2b99.2465715@news-server.optonline.net>...
> Take off the keyboard and re-seat the video cable.
> Do this with the machine UNPLUGGED from power.
>
> On 29 Jan 2005 05:05:06 -0800, jpaulo@meganet.pt (Jorge) wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >my Thinkpad T21 started to show the folowing behaviour:
> >Sometimes the desktop is not centered on the LCD, it's position
> >appears about 200 pixels down and to the right. The problem show up as
> >soon as the machine is turned on (during the POST). It doesn't have to
> >boot windows. For a while all I had to do was shutdown and boot again
> >and the problem went away but now it's worst.
> >I don't believe it related to display settings in Windows or in the
> >BIOS because the problems comes and goes without changes in them.
> >My resolution is 1024x768x32. I tryed others but it doesn't matter -
> >the top left corner is always far down and to the right from were it
> >was supposed to be.
> >
> >I got the impression that if I opened and closed the doors on the
> >docking port it would help but I'm not sure anymore.
> >
> >Anyone can give me a clue about what I can do to solve the problem?
> >
> >TIA,
> >Jorge