From: Tom Trottier (TomATrottier_at_home.com)
Date: Sat Apr 22 2000 - 12:48:25 EDT
Hi Mark,
Is there any correlation with low temps? Could be electrical, or LCD
related.
Tom
At 2000 April 8 - Saturday 13:43, Mark Lemon <mlemon_at_hickseq.com>
spoke about *RE: What is the "pink screen" probl...* saying
> on my TP600, about one out of 3 times I start the box all
> the white letters have a pink/static/halo effect. The MS
> Windows logo looks like a tie-dyed tee shirt, and the main
> screens icon fonts are streaked with the pink static so as
> to be unreadable. When I start MSWord, the white sheet of
> paper is pink.
>
> Sometimes the DOS text starts pink, but the problem "cures"
> itself when the LCD jumps to graphics mode. Moving the
> screen back and forth (assuming it is a bad ribbon cable)
> appears to have no effect (I'm gentle). Only a cold boot.
>
> My frustration is sometimes it will happen over and over,
> whilst other times it will go for a couple days without
> problem. Fortunately, I almost exclusively use a docking
> station, so my normal monitor & working is unaffected.
>
...
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