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Screen Color Distortion??

Heimdall

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Apr 23, 2013
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Okay picture this; when I open the laptop to view the screen, anything between 0°-90° the screen colors look like a photo negative if that makes sense. Theres a red hue to it as well. But when I tilt the screen past 90° its perfectly fine.
Its an HP Pavilion dv6-3122us running Windows 7 x64.
Ive updated the graphics drivers but still no use, anyone have any ideas or have come across this before?
 
The ribbon cable sending the signal to the screen is either breaking or has come partially undone.

You, or someone, will have to take it apart and look.
 


Okay I will probably have to take it to a local computer shop then, I cant get that damn backing off to save my life. My sony vio and gateway come off, but the 3 HP laptops wont budge. Damn Hewlett Packard...