Video Card problem with Acer Aspire 4339 laptop.

Curls

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Sooo, for a while now. (Literally a year now) My screen has literally pink and green pixels everywhere. It seems like it's becoming worse and worse slowly, honestly. First there was only pink pixels on it, but very little. Then, it started getting worse, and the pink pixels started to appear more darker if that makes sense. Then, the green pixels started popping up, and so on. Usually when that happened, i'd move my laptop around and it would disappear. Now, it just has them both and when I start Windows 7, the start up screen shows the green pixels on the monitor. On a rare occasion, it would literally disappear. But I can't do that anymore. I pretty much have no idea on what to do now, and no idea how long my GPU will last. I don't know how I'm supposed to fix it, I heard its a cord problem or something but I can't really fix it myself obviously.

This all happened because I was playing this shockwave game that literally made my PC scorching hot, seriously. But I didn't really care at the time since I wasn't aware about computers.
Can anyone give me solutions to this situation and explain this problem to me? I'm thinking about upgrading the RAM too for this PC, but is it worth it?

***Btw. Please delete the old thread since I'm more active on here. http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2721341/video-card-problem-acer-aspire-4339-laptop.html
 
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Well you don't need a new screen, you need a new cable for the screen or for it to be reset. When I did the work it cost depended on the laptop. Some you can just take the screen apart then pop the screen out, replace the cable and rebuild it. Others required you to take the laptop apart just to get to the screen so it would cost $100-150 plus parts. That was what we charged. I can't speak for others.

Parts cost would also depend. I could find some cables for $10 bucks plus shipping and others were $30-50.

Personally I would do a new laptop.

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It is the cable for sure. I have replaced plenty of them that had that issue. There were some models of HP if I remember that had an issue where the cable was a bit too tight so when you would open and close it it would slowly wear the cable out until it started to do this exactly and eventually stop working.

Check the warranty status of the laptop, if it is still under warranty then have them fix it. If not then your next option is to find a local repair tech who does laptop screens.
 

Curls

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Ha! Eh, I wish. This laptop is so old. I have no clue on what I should do, bring it to a technician so they'll fix the cable?
 

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Thanks. I'm thinking though, is it worth to add RAM to this laptop after it's fixed? Or buy a new one? Because, I don't think they'll be any screens for this outdated laptop.

And so, it's not a video card problem? Just a loose cable?
Plus, how much does repairing a laptop screen cost in my case? I hope not a lot, since it wouldn't make sense to pay $300 for a screen if I can just get a brand new laptop as a whole instead.
 

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Well you don't need a new screen, you need a new cable for the screen or for it to be reset. When I did the work it cost depended on the laptop. Some you can just take the screen apart then pop the screen out, replace the cable and rebuild it. Others required you to take the laptop apart just to get to the screen so it would cost $100-150 plus parts. That was what we charged. I can't speak for others.

Parts cost would also depend. I could find some cables for $10 bucks plus shipping and others were $30-50.

Personally I would do a new laptop.
 
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Curls

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I think I should too, since I'll be most likely paying about $250+ plus buying RAM for this crappy laptop. Since it depends on the laptop, would it be cheap for this brand? (because it's old lolol.)
 

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It's DDR3. And I was going to add 4GB since there's an empty slot. Or maybe 8GB. I already have 2GB (don't laugh, haha!)
 

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You would want to match the RAM sticks for the best performance/compatibility so if you do 4GB you would do a 2GB stick, 8GB would be 2 4GB sticks.

8GB is about $50-$70 bucks depending on brand, speed and quality.
 

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I'm so broke, brb crying. But OK. I have to add more RAM if I'm going to keep this Celeron CPU. (Don't laugh)
I thought I could slide in a 4GB of RAM with current 2GB stick. Sigh, why so complicated, why.
Thanks for telling me though, really. I'm cheap, so. I was literally going to buy one 4GB, haha. :D