Acer Problem

[pnave01]

Here are the specs:

ACER Aspire 9410-4541

Intel Core duo processor T2450 (2.0 GHz, 533 MHz FSB, 2 MB L2 Cache)
17" WXGA+ Acer Crystalbrite LCD
400 MB NVIDIA GeForce Go 7300 Turbocache
160 GB HDD
DVD-super multi DL
2BG DDR2
802.11 a/b/g WLAN

The problem: Was watching a movie and the screen went completely white, now i could still hear the movie playing as if nothing was wrong but all i saw was white. Turned of the computer, when i turned it back on after a bit it went to the white screen. Turned it off then on again went to safe mode and it loaded fine, gave me the message that windows had not shutdown properly. Turned it off properly started it up normally and it ran fine. Now this happened once last week.

Now i will be checking the ram tomorrow to rule that out (hope its not the video card or motherboard), but wanted to post this to see if anyone has encountered a similar problem and has a solution. Any help would be appreciated.

I apologize in advance if this is posted in the wrong area

 

[seedubya]

Haven't come across it before but it does seem kinda like a driver/software rather than an hardware problem.

 

[arrow_runner]

Hook it up to an external and see if the external monitor does the same thing. I seem to remember hearing somewhere that a bad backlight can cause that, but that really doesn't make any sense....

 

[Tiddle]

A friend brought me a HP Pavillion DV1000 with a similar problem. It would boot up and show the HP logo but then the screen would turn real dim and then go completely blank. I hooked up to an external and it would work for just a little while longer then it would stop reading the screen. I read that you can replace the lcd backlight, or the backlight inverter. Yall are going to laugh but it made me so frustrated that i just hit the **** out of the computer on the side and it flashed on..lol It probably had a loose connection and since it was a friends he didnt really care.


Hope this helps or leads you in the right direction.

 

[usacvlr]

When the screen is all white it means either the data cable going to the lcd display has broken, the video gpu on the board has fried or the LCD itself is toast. White is just the white background film inside the lcd being lit by the lamp with no LC being activated in front of it.

 

[pnave01]

Now the thing is that it doesn't stay white on a restart it works fine . I think it may be a overheating problem due to the fact that every time it happens the computer is very hot.

 

[usacvlr]

Well then it's not the cable but it's still either the lcd or the chip on the board. Either way it's going to cost about the same to replace either the board or the lcd.

 

[pnave01]

was afraid of that its a friends laptop