Thanks for the support and advice guys. Im looking into some low cost shipping options at the moment, ill see what i can find. It would be awesome if Sager came to the party with some of the cost.
Hmm, i wonder how long and how much...
Yeah, i guess my new thread did deserve being moved back to my old thread
SSDD.
sorry.
BTW - apart from those who feel my pain, if anyone with some tech smarts has any other suggestions for some real help that would be great....
So as a few of you may have read i have been having major issues with my display on my 5680.
Have tried new bios, new OS, new drivers, safe mode, reformatting.... but still my problems persist. I get a crazy blue flicker on desktop,...
Your right about sending it back being a last resort guys.
Believe me, its the last thing i want to do from the far side of the world!
On the winXP load screen is where i start to see troubles in the display, but not before.
Ive...
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So the display acts crazy like that even within the BIOS and whatnot? So it's definately hardware because the problems happen even before windows even attempts at loading a video...
Well, after 6 awesome weeks of love from my 5680 it has packed it in, well almost.
Booted up one morning to check some email and look up some jobs and my display went haywire.
Crazy blue pixels running all over the screen, whites...
Thanks MrMsyvc.
I hope you havent got me (aus), confused with aussie aka steve who has helped me out with a fair few questions over the past few months, he rules . However, im fairly useless unfortunately.
So back to my prob,...
My display now seems to be going back and forth between normal and flickering.
Also, sometimes it will just be in the background, behind the open window. Or sometimes just in the open windows and not the background, then sometimes all...
Everything has been running beautifully on the lappy for close to 6 weeks now, til this morning that is. Booted up this morning and when i get to login and subsequently after that i got blue flickers running up and down the screen. It...