A buddy of mine has a pair of Gateway 450x4 r4 laptops. Both have basically the same issue with the video being corrupted. Problems only seem to start when you flex the lower chassis but can't be corrected by any amount of twisting after the fact.
I started troubleshooting one of them, checked screen cable and connector, same prob. Plugged in a crt monitor, still does it on crt monitor. New thermal paste on both the
cpu and vid chip (radeon mobility), no help. I currently have the
mobo out of it to check for dirt, shorts or whatever under it and really can't see anything glaringly obvious.
I doubt it is a rare problem with this model being I am looking at two of them doing the exact same thing. I just can't come up with any info as to if there is a fix for this, short of a
mobo replacement. And fearing the problem will come right back.
If anybody has seen this happen or has seen a fix please let me know. It would be sweet to get these things fixed up as he said I can have one if I get them both working.
