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Screen Whiteout (or: snowing in hell)




I had a nasty surprise of returning to my Thinkpad that I'd left unattended
for 10 minutes (on my desk, at home) to find the screen brilliantly white
(note: this is different from "handsome white"). The LCD or something had
apparenetly spazzed out. I rebooted and all seems fine.

A week or so ago I saw the same thing, this time witnessing the whiteout. 
You know when you stand up too quickly and blackout, and wait for a few
seconds and your vision slowly starts to come back, as if you're exiting a
fuzzy tunnel? Well, the opposite happened to the screen -- over the course
of maybe two seconds a fuzzy circle of white started off to one side and
engulfed the whole screen.

This is scary. Any ideas? Unfortunately, EasyServe service is not as fast
as The States (I once shipped the machine from LA to Memphis to be fixed,
and got it back THE SAME DAY). I had it into IBM Japan once and it took
weeks.

BTW, not that I think it matters much, but it's a 755CX
	Jeffrey
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Jeffrey Friedl <jfriedl@omron.co.jp> Omron Corp, Nagaokakyo, Kyoto 617 Japan
See my Jap<->Eng dictionary at http://www.wg.omron.co.jp/cgi-bin/j-e
or at mirrors at [enterprise.ic.gc.ca] and [www.itc.omron.com]