[davidamarkley]

I can't help you with the repair, but you can try this to make sure it's not the video adapter.

If your laptop has an external monitor output, hook it to a known good monitor, and see if it displays fine on the external monitor. If so, change it so the the laptop display and the external monitor are displayed simultaneously and if the external monitor is still fine and the laptop display is still having problems, you can be certain that the video adapter is fine.

HTH,

David