My laptop’s display is messed up. I get no video on right side of screen, while the entire laptop’s display is squished onto the left side. Sometimes there is a black line about 3 inches to the left of the blank area and in between the two blank areas is a 3 inch area of replicated screen. Also the start bar is a little high and it repeats to the bottom (last two things are hard to explain, maybe i can screen shot it later.

It reads my laptop display as digital flat panel with max resolution of 1024 x 768 when it should be reading it as something closer to wxvga laptop display max res. 1280 x 800. I can get full 1920 x 1080 on my 24" monitor, so it seems to be specific to the laptop screen…which is weird because I’ve taken the laptop apart a few times to check the backlight and inverter, as well as numerous other maintenance related items like dusting, so it shouldnt be a hardware problem (also, the black right half is clearly backlit its just blank. I have used system restore and driver magician to try to get rid of the problem, and sometimes it works temporarily but any time i reboot the problem reappears. When the problem is present my graphics options are twin, dual, and extended display, when not present its just dual and extended. I never used to have this problem, and i never used to have the twin option. I’ve tried everything i can think of aside from reinstalling windows…even /basevideo booting to try to see if its a faulty intel driver…but even basevideo reverts to this problem sometimes. The problem appears at boot (even in bios) and after. Im really stuck here, and it takes a very tough problem for me to get stuck with computers…any ideas people?

It could be my os install, i have xp pro right now but the system came with media center edition. I installed updated drives at the time (which actually were the same anyways) so i doubt it has anything to do with that…but i cant revert to xp mce because my pro tools box requires pro or home. If its a video card issue im screwed because its an integrated graphics card.

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My laptop is really sticky/dirty and I think its time to clean it up. My sister uses it all the time but sometimes there’s dirt or she sneezes on the screen.. I was already told NOT to use water or anything on it. How do I get off the dirt on the laptop screen, laptop mouse (the little touch pad and the two buttons as the little clickers or whatever), and the areas surrounding the keyboards? Its really rough and my fingers get all sorts of unidentified stickies on it. Also what can I use besides water to get it off? I’m pretty sure you can’t use liquids or anything so what is there that I can use for cleaning it up?Thanks, I’ve really been meaning to clean it up for a long time, just not sure how

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