Hi,
Let me start by saying that I have a Dell XPS M1530 its 2 years old and has been working well enough lately. Today when I got home after school I booted it up out of sleep mode and the screen had a black stripe on the right side and the very bottom of the part of the screen that visible is distorted, almost as if it is magnified. A third issue is that the brightness level seems to be stuck on the lowest setting and I can't get it to change at all, not using the control panel, the battery settings or the keyboard short cuts. I looked in the control panel at the resolution, screen settings, display settings and nothing seems to work. So, i rebooted it, nothing happened, I rebooted it again, and it was fine. Then, again this afternoon it had gone into sleep mode, and when I tried to boot it up, the screen wouldn't show up at all, even though the computer was on. I rebooted it a couple of times and now the black band, distortion at the bottom and the low brightness are all back! The other thing that may help is that the black band isn't covering part of the screen, its as though its taken out of a 16:9 screen size and put into 4:3. I'm frankly out of ideas and would love any help you guys could give me. Thanks a lot in advance!
Let me start by saying that I have a Dell XPS M1530 its 2 years old and has been working well enough lately. Today when I got home after school I booted it up out of sleep mode and the screen had a black stripe on the right side and the very bottom of the part of the screen that visible is distorted, almost as if it is magnified. A third issue is that the brightness level seems to be stuck on the lowest setting and I can't get it to change at all, not using the control panel, the battery settings or the keyboard short cuts. I looked in the control panel at the resolution, screen settings, display settings and nothing seems to work. So, i rebooted it, nothing happened, I rebooted it again, and it was fine. Then, again this afternoon it had gone into sleep mode, and when I tried to boot it up, the screen wouldn't show up at all, even though the computer was on. I rebooted it a couple of times and now the black band, distortion at the bottom and the low brightness are all back! The other thing that may help is that the black band isn't covering part of the screen, its as though its taken out of a 16:9 screen size and put into 4:3. I'm frankly out of ideas and would love any help you guys could give me. Thanks a lot in advance!