Basically, the story is that I'm using a 3-year old ECS G600 notebook.
So far it has served me well throughout with a minor annoyance when I found a loose screw around 2 years ago. Otherwise fine.
I recently went away for around 5 days and shut it off. No one touched it during this period...including my cats, probably. When I turned it on today, I found that the screen wouldn't turn on in the position I usually keep it...around 95 degrees open.
It did, however, turn on when I closed the lid/screen to around 40 degrees. It also turns the LCD on when it's tilted back as far as it tilts, which I'd estimate to be around 160 degrees. Additionally, windows keeps giving me a 'Windows has recovered from a serious error' thing everytime it starts up regardless of how I shutdown, and it proceeds to point to something wrong with the GPU drivers. GPU is a Mobility Raxeon X700.
Another interesting thing is that the display shuts off/turns on like this in BIOS too, so I don't think it's a software problem. Has my GPU finally semi-fried itself somehow? Maybe something is loose? How can I check? The warranty is long dead...
By the way I've semi-fixed it to work fine in a position I want it to be in by opening it outwards fully and then rapidly tilting it back into the position I want it to assume. It's no big deal, really, except that I now have to be super careful about making sure that I don't move the screen AT ALL in any minute way.
Suggestions?
So far it has served me well throughout with a minor annoyance when I found a loose screw around 2 years ago. Otherwise fine.
I recently went away for around 5 days and shut it off. No one touched it during this period...including my cats, probably. When I turned it on today, I found that the screen wouldn't turn on in the position I usually keep it...around 95 degrees open.
It did, however, turn on when I closed the lid/screen to around 40 degrees. It also turns the LCD on when it's tilted back as far as it tilts, which I'd estimate to be around 160 degrees. Additionally, windows keeps giving me a 'Windows has recovered from a serious error' thing everytime it starts up regardless of how I shutdown, and it proceeds to point to something wrong with the GPU drivers. GPU is a Mobility Raxeon X700.
Another interesting thing is that the display shuts off/turns on like this in BIOS too, so I don't think it's a software problem. Has my GPU finally semi-fried itself somehow? Maybe something is loose? How can I check? The warranty is long dead...
By the way I've semi-fixed it to work fine in a position I want it to be in by opening it outwards fully and then rapidly tilting it back into the position I want it to assume. It's no big deal, really, except that I now have to be super careful about making sure that I don't move the screen AT ALL in any minute way.
Suggestions?
