gradient on my screen

NeVeR

I came home from work today and there is a gradient on the right side of my screen,

It's going to black,, but it doesn't totally block out the side,, Its transparent...But it wasnt there yesterday

I tried to take a screen shot but when i paste it into Photoshop it doesnt appear !!!

does anyone know what i can do to fix this ?

I'm running Windows 7 it that matters.

dreamers75

Take a picture with your phone.

Would someone have messed with the monitors actual settings on the bottom of the monitor?

NeVeR

This is the best i could do (see attached)

Someone could have changed the settings but not sure what settings or where these settings are

ricman

Try a lower resolution, 1024 x768, or f8 ,safe mode vga mode, or go to monitor menu, reset to factory settings.OR try set pc grahics card to 60mhz refresh rate.

NeVeR

it's a laptop .. does that matter?

Skerries

it could be a hardware issue, maybe the inverter is on its way out
if you can try and hook it up to an external monitor and hit fn and usually F8 or whatever the external screen button is on your laptop

NeVeR

I'll try that later.

This is a new laptop... Top of the range from my G/F's college cost alot of money so i dont think anything would be on the way out !! at least I hope not !! i hook it up to a monitor tonight ... It it doesn't appear on the (second/added) monitor what does that mean.. and then again if it does appear on the monitor what does that mean ?

yoyo

Looks like inverter is faulty, if in warranty send it back

Nick

Skerries

it should appear either way but if there are no problems on the external monitor then it is most likely the screen and more specifically the inverter
if the problem appears on the ext. monitor then it could be your gfx card on the motherboard and that will have to be replaced
what gfx is on it, does it mention Nvidia anywhere?
from what you say about the problem not appearing in pshop it sounds like the inverter could be the culprit and so needs to go back under warranty

NeVeR

The laptop is a HP EliteBook Mobile Workstation 8530w -- not cheap
It has Nvidia quadro


Edit: I've not had a chance to test anything as i'm not at home yet