Acer Aspire V3-731 Screen showing lines at bootup Hi everyone. Forum Newbie here. Would really appreciate some advice here please.... I have an Acer Aspire V3-173, that when booting up, shows a black screen for the top 3/4, and lighter grey for the balance of the screen. After a few seconds it changes to vertical lines and no further changes. I have tested the connection to an external screen via the VGA port and this worked successfully. I have removed both 4GB RAM, started with them one at a time, in different slots as well. I have opened it, checked that the screen cable (on both sides : motherboard and behind the screen assembly) is correctly inserted and not damaged. At the time of its failure, the laptop booted as normal and then changed to the black screen, without any changes for the better since then. Aspire V3-731 Intel B970 2.3GHz cpu Intel HD graphics 17.3" LEC LCD screen 8GB DDR3 1TB HDD Windows 7 Home https://www.dropbox.com/s/tinbu3pfgcce0j1/screen.jpg
Connection between display and laptop is damaged or screen itself is damaged. Vertical lines are quite common for damaged displays, GPU's or cables. So that seems to be hardware based problem. Not much you can do without special knowledge.
