Scratches on Your PC or Laptop Screen - Causes and What to Do

If you have streaks or artifacts on your computer monitor screen or the same thing happens on your laptop screen, horizontal or vertical, white, red, green or blue - you are not alone in your problem, it is very common. Unfortunately, most of the time it requires a repair, but not always.

Below is what can be the cause of what causes scratches on the laptop screen or a similar problem occurs on a computer monitor, photos with examples of such scratches and what can be said about their appearance about the origin of the problem and the corresponding methods to solve them.

Note: If streaks or artifacts appear in only one program, the problem is most often with the way that program interacts with the video card or its drivers. For example, if strange streaks start to appear in the Google Chrome browser, it is usually enough to disable hardware acceleration in the browser, for some other programs, such as video players, this may also be relevant.

The main causes of scratches on your laptop screen and computer monitor

Some of the main causes of color, white or black horizontal or vertical stripes on the monitor are:

1. Problems with the video card, video chip (overheating, hardware malfunction) - as a rule, in this case it is seen that the cause is not in the screen itself (if problems with the loop or the matrix - most likely clear), moreover, in safe mode, with low resolution and in BIOS the image may remain normal (but not always). The appearance of stripes in this case is usually in the form of artifacts, strange elements of the image and text in different places, or stripes (often colored) ordered in a certain system across the screen evenly, the examples will follow. In this situation, the most common is that there is a horizontal distribution of the artifacts or stripes: even if the stripes themselves are vertical, but we see them evenly distributed horizontally across the screen, it seems that it is something with the video card (but the second option is also possible).
2. There is a problem with the laptop matrix plume or the computer monitor connecting cable (or connector). It can be as in the previous case or as in the following variant. Sometimes the screen can be "colored" in some color. The appearance of streaks or artifacts may change when opening and closing the laptop lid, or when the monitor cable receives a physical impact. In the case of the laptop cable, you may also notice that a large area of ​​the screen disappears: it turns white or black, or there is a single vertical Bands of some color.
3. Damage to the laptop matrix or monitor screen. Usually it looks like a set of multi-colored vertical stripes in one area of ​​the screen (can, in turn, consist of horizontal stripes), sometimes - as individual vertical stripes, black spots on the image (often with orientation horizontal) are also possible. In severe matrix damage there may be more interesting patterns, combinations of vertical and horizontal lines.

Examples of scratches on computer and laptop screens and their corresponding causes

And now examples of those stripes on their screens and indicating the specific problem that has caused them, so that you can have a guess as to what the cause is in your case.

In the images below, the cause is most likely the video card.

The following 3 possibilities may indicate a video card problem or a problem with the laptop screen stub or PC cable (or the video card and monitor connectors).

Below are 3 options with a high probability of reporting laptop matrix plume issues or computer monitor connection issues.

Lastly, this is what damage to the matrix itself can look like due to an impact, a squeeze, or other physical damage. The chart can vary greatly depending on the location and severity of the damage.

What to do to solve the problem of scratches on the screen

In most cases, such as nozzle deterioration, video card hardware failure, or display matrix damage, you will need to request hardware repair or replacement, but sometimes options are available. :

• In case the problem is supposedly with the video card, and you have a desktop computer that has a separate on-board video output, and the on-board video card is on, try connecting your monitor to that output.
• If it is supposed to be a connection problem and it is, again, a PC, you can try other cables, inputs on the monitor and outputs on the video card.
• A laptop with a broken matrix or damaged plume can normally be connected to an external monitor or TV (see How to connect a laptop to a TV).
• If you're not sure if it's the computer monitor or the computer itself (its video card), try connect the monitor to a computer laptop, to another computer, to a game console and see if the problem persists.

A common recommendation is to update or rollback the video card drivers. You can try this, but it helps in very rare cases and only for the first scenario: when we assume a video chip problem.

Hopefully some of the information provided will help you figure out exactly what the problem is in your case and take the appropriate steps to fix it.