Mark-Young
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= General Details = (in case it's useful for some reason)
2-3 weeks ago, a tiny, glowing patch appeared on the bottom, left-hand corner of my laptop screen. It was weird but didn't interfere with anything. Then it appeared on the bottom right. And then a line emerged on either side around the glow. Again, nothing bad but then they grew. The "cracks" on either end look like they're slowly crawling across the screen to meet in the middle. At the rate they're going, by this time next month I think I'll have one, continuous, lightning arc stretching from end-to-end. And I have no idea what it is or what could fix it.
It's very strange. I know what cracked screens typically look like, but I haven't seen anything like this and no amount of Internet searching produces anything usefully similar to my problem that I can see. It cannot be felt and so it is not on the screen's outer glass protection. It does not hinder or interfere with touch screen or stylus pressure sensitivity accuracy. And where it is now, not a big deal for me but they are growing. However, it does feel a lot, lot warmer down there than the rest of the screen.
When the screen is dark around the area of the cracks, some kind of light speckling appears around the affected area as well. They likewise cannot be moved, mingled, or otherwise be affected by any movement, tilting, or pressing of the stylus. Upon very close inspection, I can actually see these specks as black dots all long the screen's edges (and they're white around the cracks, but can't be seen otherwise on a dark background elsewhere).
The laptop has only been dropped once onto a plastic chair a few years ago, and a second time a few months ago was accidentally bumped hard in the side of doorway, but no problems showed up at all then.
- OS Version: Microsoft Windows 10 Home, 64 bit
- Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3537U CPU @ 2.00GHz, Intel64 Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9
- Processor Count: 4
- RAM: 8071 Mb
- Graphics Card: Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000, -1984 Mb
- Hard Drives: C: 211 GB (55 GB Free);
- Motherboard: Sony Corporation, VAIO
- Antivirus: Windows Defender, Enabled and Updated
2-3 weeks ago, a tiny, glowing patch appeared on the bottom, left-hand corner of my laptop screen. It was weird but didn't interfere with anything. Then it appeared on the bottom right. And then a line emerged on either side around the glow. Again, nothing bad but then they grew. The "cracks" on either end look like they're slowly crawling across the screen to meet in the middle. At the rate they're going, by this time next month I think I'll have one, continuous, lightning arc stretching from end-to-end. And I have no idea what it is or what could fix it.
It's very strange. I know what cracked screens typically look like, but I haven't seen anything like this and no amount of Internet searching produces anything usefully similar to my problem that I can see. It cannot be felt and so it is not on the screen's outer glass protection. It does not hinder or interfere with touch screen or stylus pressure sensitivity accuracy. And where it is now, not a big deal for me but they are growing. However, it does feel a lot, lot warmer down there than the rest of the screen.
When the screen is dark around the area of the cracks, some kind of light speckling appears around the affected area as well. They likewise cannot be moved, mingled, or otherwise be affected by any movement, tilting, or pressing of the stylus. Upon very close inspection, I can actually see these specks as black dots all long the screen's edges (and they're white around the cracks, but can't be seen otherwise on a dark background elsewhere).
The laptop has only been dropped once onto a plastic chair a few years ago, and a second time a few months ago was accidentally bumped hard in the side of doorway, but no problems showed up at all then.
