26 Ιουνίου 2011

Acer grey screen

If you have ever seen my Acer 5930G laptop, you might remember me cursing about a grey screen that appeared occasionally while I was using it. The ritual I had discovered to fix this problem included first putting the laptop in hibernation or restarting the windows manager and then oscillating the screen back and forth until it was either restored or the pattern changed into another broken one which required yet another hibernation/restart. I had searched in vain for solutions to this problem, but yesterday (just before I leave Greece for a summer internship in Stockholm), a friend suggested a miraculous fix to this problem.