Ok, so a week and a half ago i got out of basic training and bought a toshiba satellite l355-s7915 from the local wal-mart so i would have a cheap little laptop to entertain myself with while i was at my AIT (college for the army basically).
Well, the laptop worked fine for the first ohh i'd say, 2 days. Then the LCD Display started to get little white lines going through the middle of the screen. At first it wasn't that bad, maybe 5-6 thin lines spread out over an inch or two of the screen. But now, several days later there are 100's of white lines, and it spans over half the screen. Not only are there white lines, but the part of the screen that does show seems to freeze up every 5-10 seconds and just stops showing an updated image.
Another thing that it's doing now is, every so often the bottom half of the screen (from the lines down) will turn black and not show any image.
Now heres my delima. I WOULD just take the PoS back to walmart where i got it from and either get a new one or get my money back. But, i just so happeto be about 2,000 miles from that walmart and i no longer have the box it came in because i didnt have room to carry the box on the plane with me to my next duty station. And i dont have the reciept anymore. So i'm left to fix the problem on my own.
Can anyone tell me what the problem might be? Whether its the LCD screen going bad, or the video data cable, or what i can do to fix it. Thanks in advanced.
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