Monitor damage after installing game (Wine - Linux)

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Thea Bergermann

Hello,

I just tried to instal "Guild Wars" under Wine on my SuSE 10.1 linux
system.
The installation went fine and the initial images were perfect, but
suddenly an about 5cm wide column on the extreme right of my display
began flickering and finally went white. This stayed. Even at boot time
and in BIOS setup, the column stays the same. Only with X running, a
shadow of the "true" display is visible among vertical lines.
I fear that I somehow damaged my monitor. Is there anything that I
could do to resurrect my "white column"?

System data:
Toshiba Satellite P30 Series (Japanese Dynabook WX 3727WDS)
ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP MS3; RS300 5835
LG Phillips LCD Monitor (16:10 17" WXGA, 1440x900)

Software:
SuSE Linux 10.1
wine (most recent.... xx.xx.22)
Display Driver: ati (non-proprietary standard driver)

We already tried a BIOS reset to defaults and removing the BIOS
battery, to no measurable effect.

Thank you,

Thea Bergermann
Nuernberg, Germany
 
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paulmd

Thea said:
Hello,

I just tried to instal "Guild Wars" under Wine on my SuSE 10.1 linux
system.
The installation went fine and the initial images were perfect, but
suddenly an about 5cm wide column on the extreme right of my display
began flickering and finally went white. This stayed. Even at boot time
and in BIOS setup, the column stays the same. Only with X running, a
shadow of the "true" display is visible among vertical lines.
I fear that I somehow damaged my monitor. Is there anything that I
could do to resurrect my "white column"?
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The game didn't cause this. It failed on its own. There isn't much you
can do short of relacing the screen. Well, you can try replugging the
connector (hey, you got the thing apart far enough to remove the bios
battery). Is it under warenty?
 
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Thea Bergermann

Thea Bergermann wrote: (snip)

The game didn't cause this. It failed on its own. There isn't much you
can do short of relacing the screen. Well, you can try replugging the
connector (hey, you got the thing apart far enough to remove the bios
battery). Is it under warenty?
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I bought it in february 2005 in Yokohama/Japan. Even if there were
warranty, I couldn`t collect on it at reasonable expense, since I am
now back in Germany.
What can I do? Get a new display? A new graphics adaptor (aka
replacement computer for the shell)?

I`m just now looking for someone that could lend me a monitor so I can
check up on the graphics card.

Thank you,

Thea
Nuernberg, Germany
 
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Darklight

Thea said:
I bought it in february 2005 in Yokohama/Japan. Even if there were
warranty, I couldn`t collect on it at reasonable expense, since I am
now back in Germany.
What can I do? Get a new display? A new graphics adaptor (aka
replacement computer for the shell)?

I`m just now looking for someone that could lend me a monitor so I can
check up on the graphics card.

Thank you,

Thea
Nuernberg, Germany
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why don't you find a friend who has a pc and try the monitor on that then
you will know what is wrong or take the monitor to a shop and try it on one
of there pc's have you tried changing the resolution
 
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