[OT] Laptop screen messed up

[Jeff Macdonald]

Never mind, it seems to have fixed itself!

On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 09:54, Jeff Macdonald wrote:
> Hi all,
> I was playing WarCraft III on my wifes laptop when the laptop decided to
> go into hibernate mode (power cord had jiggled loose). The screen is now
> a a bunch of different colors and at one point turned white. When I
> attach an external monitor I am able to use the computer. I've tried:
> 
> 1) rebooting the computer
> 2) swiching video modes and toggling between LCD/CRT
> 3) booting Gentoo to see if that could unwedge whatever is stuck
> 4) changing the number of colors
> 5) running the game again using the CRT then switching to LCD
> 
> Nothing has worked. Computer isn't under warranty any more. It is a Dell
> Inspiron 2500.
> 
> Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
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