[Bushuu]

Hi, my 1011 started about 2 weeks ago by flickering the left half of the screen with the colors that were on the screen in stripes from top to bottom, it stopped so i forgot about it, today however it started again and ended with it displaying the left half of the screen white while the right side displaying windows 7 correctly, occasionally it flickers and shows the full display correctly and then back to white.(only long enough to see it's done it) I have connected it to an external display and that works fine, I also have another 1011 witch I use for parts (both are 1024x600 displays although different screen manufactures) I swapped the cable from the spare 1011 in to it and still the same problem... only it seems not to flicker at all now, I cannot swap the screen as the one from the spare has a massive crack in it.

both are standard 1011 except 2gb ram and the hdd in the one I use is 250gb the mainboard in the spare works too!

any ideas?

oh and its win7 home premium


I'm wondering if its the inverter board?

[rrfranczak3]

before I replaced ANYTHING, I would check the video connections inside, sounds like maybe its loose even though I know you said your swapped cables...are they connected good?.....

PS. Welcome to the forum.....

Here is the complete 1011 (10v) Service Manual in case you need it

link:
Dell 1011 Service Manual

[Bushuu]

Yes connections are good and firm... I have checked that first thing i did.

Thank you for the link.... have used it before.

Oh and HI!!!!

[rrfranczak3]

would be smart if you just downloaded the manual in case they pull it one of these days, the 1011 is quite old now