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I don't think I get along well with technology.
I've had my laptop for about a year now and I really haven't had too many troubles out of it, but I did need to replace the keyboard the day before yesterday because the so very much needed backspace key got messed up. The replacement went okay and everything seemed to work fine, but just this morning I noticed that the picture on my screen cut out when I lifted my laptop up to shift a little bit. It happened when my hand made contact with the CD/DVD tray. So I fiddled with it a little thinking maybe something had gotten knocked loose and I just nudged it out of place or what have you and the picture popped back up but for only briefly. Then I had a problem with the picture just generally appearing, then disappearing again. It would reappear if I moved the screen specific ways but then it just wouldn't even work. The brief times I did have the picture back, I could not move the mouse or anything. I tried to restart it, which ended in failure as now it appears that my laptop won't even boot up most of the time. I can turn it on and the power light will be on, but the picture will be a cloudy sort of black and none of the start up screens appear, nor does the hard drive make noise or the fan for that matter. It will work occasionally when I try to start it up, but most times not unless you hold it a specific way.
My friend thought it was the hard drive (I am guessing because of the boot up problem.), so he replaced my old one with his spare, but the problem is still there. So he thought that it was the LCD cable, that perhaps he had jarred it out of place when he put the LED guard back on after replacing the keyboard. He messed with that for a while, but the problem didn't get any better.
Does anyone have any idea what the problem could be with my laptop?
The laptop is a Compaq Evo N800c and I run Windows XP.
I've had my laptop for about a year now and I really haven't had too many troubles out of it, but I did need to replace the keyboard the day before yesterday because the so very much needed backspace key got messed up. The replacement went okay and everything seemed to work fine, but just this morning I noticed that the picture on my screen cut out when I lifted my laptop up to shift a little bit. It happened when my hand made contact with the CD/DVD tray. So I fiddled with it a little thinking maybe something had gotten knocked loose and I just nudged it out of place or what have you and the picture popped back up but for only briefly. Then I had a problem with the picture just generally appearing, then disappearing again. It would reappear if I moved the screen specific ways but then it just wouldn't even work. The brief times I did have the picture back, I could not move the mouse or anything. I tried to restart it, which ended in failure as now it appears that my laptop won't even boot up most of the time. I can turn it on and the power light will be on, but the picture will be a cloudy sort of black and none of the start up screens appear, nor does the hard drive make noise or the fan for that matter. It will work occasionally when I try to start it up, but most times not unless you hold it a specific way.
My friend thought it was the hard drive (I am guessing because of the boot up problem.), so he replaced my old one with his spare, but the problem is still there. So he thought that it was the LCD cable, that perhaps he had jarred it out of place when he put the LED guard back on after replacing the keyboard. He messed with that for a while, but the problem didn't get any better.
Does anyone have any idea what the problem could be with my laptop?
The laptop is a Compaq Evo N800c and I run Windows XP.