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Panasonic CF-29 with strange display problem

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2015 3:46 am
by Jim202
Have a CF-29 laptop that the screen just goes crazy after using it for a few minutes. With no warning, all I get is lines on the screen. No key stroke makes any change. If you boot the computer from a cold start, it will run for a while and do the same thing. The ALT, CTRL, DEL key combo doesn't do anything.

My question is if it was a bad connection in the computer, I would think that once it did the line trick, it would stay that way. But this is not the case. So the second thought is maybe there is a software glitch. That means probably rebuilding the hard drive or another hard drive from scratch. Just haven't had the time yet to try that route.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Jim

Re: Panasonic CF-29 with strange display problem

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2015 5:17 am
by tuckerm
Can you take a picture of this happening and post it here? My guess is the LCD flex cable is probably loose...but it's hard to tell from your post what exactly its doing without a pic.

Re: Panasonic CF-29 with strange display problem

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2015 6:43 am
by nukedude
Mine began doing this before the main motherboard failed. Took some work on eBay to find a donor board, but luckily the CF-29 is a common model.