Wavy Colored Screen On My Laptop

Kassem

Hi everyone, I've recently noticed that there's an issue with my laptop's screen or the graphics card - I'm not sure. What happens is that when the laptop goes to sleep mode and wakes up again, I see vertical columns of wavy colors all over the screen.

I would like to know whether this is a software issue, and in which case would a driver update solve the problem? Or is it something wrong with my screen or my graphics card itself? How can I further diagnose the problem so I would be sure what is actually going on?

AvoK95

It could be the lamps on your LCD Screen. How old is your laptop ?

Kassem

AvoK95 wroteIt could be the lamps on your LCD Screen. How old is your laptop ?

It's almost a 1 year old laptop.

TPR0

On mine, doing this with the battery causes vertical black and white lines, whats your specs? GPU?

I think its the frequency problem switch... Mine can handle 40hz to 60hz...

AvoK95

as TPRO mentioned, it could also be from frequency. Try updating your BIOS , GPU driver, remove your laptop battery and check your adapter voltages.

mr-anderson

try to plug it to a projector or a tv using vga or hdmi
if the lines are gone then the problem is in the screen
if the lines are still there, then your screen is fine, the problem could be in gpu,driver,battery....

shant

does it go away if you restart it? did you try safe mod?
if its gone after restarting, it may just be a software issue

Kassem

shant wrotedoes it go away if you restart it? did you try safe mod?
if its gone after restarting, it may just be a software issue

Yup it does. This is why I suspected it's just a software issue. I will try to upgrade the graphics card tonight and see if that solves it. Otherwise I'll have to try some of the other suggestions.

shant

try updating other drivers too, also try last known good configuration mode and safe mode