HP ProBook 4540s screen is weird colors and is flickering

[rogersjzach]

Hello! so within the last few hours i had put my laptop in my backpack and put it in the back of my car trunk. It was there for about an hour. and when I got back home i turned on the laptop the screen was weird colors and flickering. I have no idea what to do since even in 2018 its still a 599$ laptop. Any help would be great. And no, it didnt move around in the back and there is no way it could've had weight on it. Any help would be amazing, Have an amazing day <3

 

[webworkings]

Try this...

1. Turn the laptop off (not sleep or hibernate but off).
2. Connect an external monitor to the laptop.
3. Turn on the external monitor.
4. Turn on the laptop.

NOTE: You may have to press an "external monitor" button. Could be the f4 button or a button with two monitors on it, for the external monitor to work.

If you can see fine on the external monitor, then your attached display, or the ribbon cable that connects it, are your problem.

If you can't see on the external monitor at all, or the problem occurs on the external monitor as well, then it is probably the graphics card/GPU that is the problem, which may require the motherboard be replaced.