Dell Inspiron 5520 screen issue

td9330

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Sep 15, 2014
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So I have a dell Inspiron 5520 15 inch laptop. A few months ago, it would randomly display everything in pink and green for a moment every now and them. That progressed to it completely turning until flickering bars of color for a little longer, but eventually after moving the screen for a while it would come back. Now it appears to be stuck with shifting bars of color like this:

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And no amount of moving the screen could bring it back.
I hooked it up to a tv with an hdmi cable and everything looked fine so I know it must be something with a cable or the screen itself. Do y'all think this might be a faulty wire or do you think it's probably the whole screen that just needs to be replaced.

Any help or opinions would be greatly appreciated!!
 

windwood

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Nov 16, 2014
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I have exactly the same laptop. I've been having a screen issue as well, similar but not exactly. I don't get the color bands, but my screen flickers and displays weird stuff depending on what position it is in. It's been doing it now for about three months and is getting progressively worse. However, I'm using it right now and it's working fine as long as I don't move it. I'm suspecting the cable and I'm going to go ahead and buy one and replace it as a start.

Here's a YouTube How To which is very comprehensive. You can do this.