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by Tade0 1350 days ago
I damaged my laptop's screen by leaving it running at 100% CPU with the lid closed for too long(not my intent - that was "sleep mode"). The adhesive keeping the LCD layers came off, creating a diagonal striped clouding pattern.

I was meaning to do something similar to the author[0], but couldn't make time and just used this opportunity to buy an external screen.

I'm glad someone put in the work so that now I may be able to use my original screen again.

[0] My most desperate idea was to run a RDP session locally and process the displayed image. Seemed simpler than trying to modify the content of the screen directly.
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dylan604 1350 days ago
>The adhesive keeping the LCD layers came off, creating a diagonal striped clouding pattern.

now this sounds like something my younger me would be interested in seeing. what kind of special effect look can you get from that by running different colors/patterns through that stripe? obviously, the only way to make it usable would be to record the screen externally, but it would not be the first time someone (ahem,me) pointed a camera at a screen for sfx/vfx. back in the old analog days, i would by crts specifically because of their "issues".

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jerf 1350 days ago
"The adhesive keeping the LCD layers came off, creating a diagonal striped clouding pattern."

Oh, is THAT what that is. I have an ancient laptop where the screen is failing that way. Was trying to figure out what on Earth could produce perfectly diagonal streaks in an LCD! Though I'm still not quite sure how that connects; is the tape oriented diagonally?

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Tade0 1349 days ago
> Oh, is THAT what that is.

That is at least the explanation I got on some obscure forum where someone else had a similar problem and it was caused by heat.

> is the tape oriented diagonally?

Worse - it's a multi layer sandwich of filters etc. which need to be perfectly aligned for a clear image:

https://www.azom.com/images/Article_Images/ImageForArticle_2...

Funny thing is in my case the hottest part actually remained ok - it's the surroundings that got, for lack of a better word, ruffled.

I've seen videos of Indian repair men disassembling a panel and putting it together to fix such issues, but IIRC only the back light ever came off.

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