Hi You all,
I have the same problem with my Amilo M3438g. Or at least it sounds a lot like the problem I'm having.
But my LCD is replacing some colors with green (in web browsers and MSN window white is mixed with flickering pink). This thing started to happen in the end of summer when on a heavily shaking ferry boat I opened up my computer and got the bad surprise. I was sure the problem must be some loos connection so I went to the repair-shop, were a guy said that the only solution is to put in a new LCD panel, but as my computer is quite old 4 years or so I figured it can wait (as it reacts only to some colors I was able to ignore this problem) and think about maybe having to buy a new computer all together (as the price they told me, was bigger then the market price of my old machine I guess ).
In the beginning of January things went worse, my computer failed to boot and started to run just in safe mode. I tried several things (reinstalled boot sector, let windows search for problems while booting) but non of it made it work again til I uninstalled my graphic card driver (card is Go 6800 last Siemens driver dates back to 2005
) and as I installed the driver again it all started to work again, but as I suspected something suspicious had made its way to my hard drive I let AVAST scan everything while booting and to my surprise, when I got back, the screen was covered with cubist dream (rows of pale squares covered it, I never saw the log and don't know if any virus was found), computer was not responsive and so I forced it to shut down, but when I switched it back on it started like old times and no green showed up when opening different pictures. Ray of hope, LCD was fine again. This lasted only for a week, then the green pixels came back.
http://i45.tinypic.com/vxy97t.jpg this is a shot of that page
http://www.afsc.noaa.gov/Quarterly/ond2003/images/exampletransientweb.jpg on my display.
And the amount of disorder is dependent of the color quality (running on 16bit it's bearable....hardly).
http://i49.tinypic.com/2ihmqmv.jpghttp://i46.tinypic.com/1053yns.jpg Ok pic did not turn out fab but as my display is not working I even don't know how bad they are.
PS! Sorry for the long post...I was hoping this saga would give someone out there an idea what is causing it... and if indeed the LCD has just "died" (the repairshop reception guy just looked at it for 1minut so I started to second guess his story as I was not given any explanation of what the problem actually was) and should be replaced or might it still be a problem with connections OR even some virus corrupting my laptop (although neither Avast or SpyBot found nothing worse than cookies when searching now)and I should try format C... but as my monitor worked for a week it reminded me that this problem should be solved NOW... and not be put on any longer (as I have tolerated this far too long). Hope this plea for help is heard.
Best wishes Mary.