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I just got an HP laptop, and the screen is doing something strange. It has these little staggered areas of black lines that flicker. Anyone know what could cause that?
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The LCD itself may be damaged, or you're running a refresh rate higher than it can handle. Try setting it to 60Hz.
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Damn, it's at 60 hZ It would be really irritating to have to send it back.
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it could be the LCD got damaged during shipping. even tiny cracks would cause it to fuck up. or maybe it's not connected to the computer itself properly?
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It could be your video driver too, but most likely it's your LCD going wacko.

But IMO, I suggest you return it anyway, as far as I know and have experienced, HP (and Compaq now for that matter) computers (both notebooks+desktops) weren't exactly good in the reliability scale.
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