If you have streaks or artifacts on your computer monitor screen or the same thing happens on your laptop screen, horizontal or vertical, blanca, roja, green or blue, you are not alone in your problem, It's very common. Unfortunately, most of the time it needs a repair, but not always.
Below is what may be the cause of what causes laptop screen scratches or equivalent hindrance occurs on a computer monitor, photos with examples of such scratches and what can be said about their appearance about the origin of the problem and the corresponding methods of solving them.
Note: If streaks or artifacts appear in a single program, the problem is usually in the way the program interacts with the video card or its drivers. As an example, if strange streaks start to appear in the Google Chrome browser, disabling hardware acceleration in the browser is usually sufficient, for some other programs, like video players, this may also be relevant.
The main causes of scratches on your laptop screen and monitor
Some of the main causes of horizontal or vertical color stripes, white or black on the monitor are:
- Video card problems, the video chip (overheating, hardware malfunction): as a rule, in this circumstance it is seen that the cause is not on the screen itself (if there are problems with the loop or matrix, most likely it will be erased), at the same time , in safe mode, with low resolution and in BIOS the image may remain normal (but not always). The appearance of stripes in this circumstance is usually in the form of artifacts, strange image and text items in different places, or stripes (often colored) arranged in a given system across the screen uniformly, examples will follow. In this situation, the most common is that there is a horizontal distribution of the artifacts or stripes: even if the stripes themselves are vertical, but we see them evenly distributed horizontally across the screen, it seems to be something with the video card ( but the second option is also feasible).
- There is an obstacle with the laptop matrix pen or cable (or connector) computer monitor connection. It can be as in the previous case or as in the next variant. Sometimes, the screen can be “colored” with some color. The appearance of streaks or artifacts may change when opening and closing the laptop lid or when the monitor cable receives a physical impact.. In the case of the laptop cable, you may also notice that a large area of the screen disappears: it becomes white or black, or is there a single vertical bands of some color.
- Damage to the laptop matrix or monitor screen. As usual, looks like a set of multicolored vertical stripes in one area of the screen (may, at the same time, consist of horizontal stripes), sometimes, as individual vertical stripes, black dots in the image (often in landscape orientation) they are also possible. In severe damage to the matrix there may be more interesting patterns, combinations of vertical and horizontal lines.
Examples of scratches on PC and laptop screens and their corresponding causes
And now examples of those stripes on your screens and indicating the specific problem that has caused them, so you can guess what the cause is in your case.
In the pictures below, the most likely cause is the video card.
The following 3 Possibilities can indicate an obstacle with the video card or an obstacle with the terminal of the laptop screen or the PC cable (or the video card and monitor connectors).
Then, shows 3 options with a high probability of reporting laptop matrix pen problems or computer monitor connection problems.
Finally, this is how damage to the matrix itself can be seen due to an impact, a squeeze or other physical damage. Table can vary greatly depending on location and severity of damage.
What to do to fix the problem of screen scratches.
In most cases, as the nozzle deterioration, video card hardware failure or display matrix damage, you will need to request repair or replacement of hardware, but every now and then there are options available. :
- In case the problem is supposedly with the video card, and you have a desktop computer that has a separate built-in video output, and the built-in video card is turned on, try connecting your monitor to that output.
- If it is supposed to be a connection obstacle and it is, again, a pc, can try other cables, inputs on the monitor and outputs on the video card.
- A laptop with a broken matrix or a regularly damaged pen can be connected to an external monitor or TV (see How to connect a laptop to a TV).
- If you are not sure whether it is the computer monitor or the computer itself (your video card), try connecting the monitor to a laptop, another computer, a game console and see if the problem persists.
A common recommendation is to update or roll back the video card drivers. You can try this, but it helps in very rare cases and only for the first scenario: when we take an obstacle with the video chip.
Hopefully, Some of the information provided will help you determine exactly what the problem is in your case and take the appropriate steps to fix it..
