Mutli colored lines appear on my screen

Sounds like you have a section of dead pixels. This can happen if the laptop has been dropped a lot or stepped on or some type of impact on the laptop. This is a hardware issue. You will need to have the screen replaced. In my opinion, by the age of the laptop, its better off getting a new one.

Hello,

Yes, it's a screen problem. It could be a loose connection of the LCD and the motherboard or the lid lights gone bad. You can fix that by either resetting the connection of the screen and the motherboard or replacing the whole screen. You would need a technician to do that.

David

seems like your screen have some dead pixels. the only solution is replacing the screen. ita a hardware problem not software.

Hi,

I think it would be better to isolate the problem if its software or hardware. Most likely the lines on the screen are cause either by faulty LCD, loosed cable from the LCD to Video Card or Bad Video Card. Try loading to BIOS and see if its having lines inside it, If yes means its already hardware problem. There is a Loosed, Bad connection or Faulty hardware inside the machine.

Hope it helps.

It's definitely a hardware problem that a software "fix" cannot repair. It sounds most likely a problem with the video processor (GPU) on the motherboard. It might also be a problem with the LCD panel.

If this happens after a few initial screens go by with no issue and then windows starts loading and it hangs then it's a software problem.

If the lines appear right away and you never see any software loading then it's a hardware issue.

It could be an issue with the video card, mainboard, LCD, or the wires that go from the mainboard up to the LCD screen. The odd part is that a video issue shouldn't stop it from booting, so that points more towards a mainboard issue.

Are you sure it's not booting? Maybe just the display is out.
Watch the disk drive light and see if it continues flickering for a few minutes after the video goes, out.

Did you have an trouble with the hinges on this laptop? Just asking because the display wires are tiny and fragile and they travel up to the LCD passing near the hinge area.

If you are brave and reasonably handy and can read a detailed service manual you could try reseating some of the internal connectors but that gets pretty involved and the problem is more likely with the LCD itself or the mainboard.

There is a lot of info about this on the Dell communities that covers many models and some of them mention known problems that Dell fixes for free. See the link below, then call Dell. Be polite but firm and mention the recall because it seems to cover the D810 so they may fix it for free.

http://en.community.dell.com/dell-blogs/direct2dell/b/direct2dell/archive/2007/06/19/more-systems-now-part-of-vertical-line-issue.aspx

Multiple problem issue going on here, with the screen having those lines popping up the way it is, the screen is definitely going to need to be replaced.

Hard drive is a more touchy issue. Not sure if you put a new one or a refurhbished one in the system. If it was a used one or refurbished one, I would suggest putting a new one in the laptop to be sure the hard drive is good and then reinstall the OS and put the drivers back on. That would be my suggestion.

The other thing to try would be to make sure your memory is good. If you have more then one stick, try each stick one at a time and turn on the laptop after inserting just one memory stick into the drive, and then repeat the process with the other and see if the laptop does the same thing each time, if it does then you know the memory is good, if you can get it to boot up into windows with one memory stick but not the other then you know one of the memory sticks is bad.

In fact try the memory swap first and then if that doesn't get you anywhere then try a new hard drive in the laptop.

If that doesn't get you anywhere then you know for sure the motherboard is bad.

bad convergence ic's

this thing happened in my laptop also i got green screen fully
then when i hit it behind the screen it was gone but comes many times then again i would hit
later on the screen was completly lost then had to replace the screen
yous is a starting period so go to a nearby computer service and fix the screen

Hello yoyoxide.


from my experience can be something related with the video card. I recommend you the followig (Hardware diagnostics):

-Look for one of the discs that came with your computer, it should say (Drivers & utilities).
-Boot from the CD. If you don't know how to do it do the following:
1.Insert the Drivers&Utilities Disk.
2.Restart teh computer.
3. When you get the Dell logo, press F12
4.Select Boot from CD/CDRW-DVD (something like that).
-You will get a prompt to run the diagnosics.
-Just follow the wizard
-I recommend you to run diagnostics for everything.
-You will see if you have any problems with your hardware.

It seems that you have a pretty new laptop, so probably it's under warranty.