I've got a HP ProBook 4520s which started acting up in the last month or so. The image on the laptop screen started tearing while the image on the external screen was completely fine (http/imgur.com/erZjXA4). What's more this problem doesn't occure all the time. I have never seen it tear in bios/windows start up screen. The first time you can spot the problem is when you get to the account selection screen where the blue background of Windows 7 takes on a slightly yellow hue in some parts of the screen.
Do you think this is caused by the graphics chip or is there another possible reason for this kind of an issue?
Thank you for your suggestions
Regards, JKKDev.
PS: The problems started when (or shortly after) I started using the external monitor.
EDIT 1: I should probably also state that the first couple of times this happened the simple act of changing the focused window from full-screen to "windowed" solved the problem completely just to reappear as soon as the focused window was full-screen again. Just today the problem was getting a bit obnoxious as the laptop just wouldn't start without the problem appearing as soon as the login screen was shown. The only way I was able to "solve" it was to switch into duplicate mode in which the screen resolution was changed from native to a 4:3 resolution however this time the yellow hue persisted even tho the tearing was gone.
Do you think this is caused by the graphics chip or is there another possible reason for this kind of an issue?
Thank you for your suggestions
Regards, JKKDev.
PS: The problems started when (or shortly after) I started using the external monitor.
EDIT 1: I should probably also state that the first couple of times this happened the simple act of changing the focused window from full-screen to "windowed" solved the problem completely just to reappear as soon as the focused window was full-screen again. Just today the problem was getting a bit obnoxious as the laptop just wouldn't start without the problem appearing as soon as the login screen was shown. The only way I was able to "solve" it was to switch into duplicate mode in which the screen resolution was changed from native to a 4:3 resolution however this time the yellow hue persisted even tho the tearing was gone.