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    Inspiron 8500 laptop screen flickers and Images jumbled

    Hey I have a dell Inspiron 8500 Laptop that works under the Microsoft windows 7operating system. I am working properly on it from 6 month but now I am having the problem with my laptop that is not able to run with my requirement. This Inspiron 8500 laptop screen flickers on and off and Images on Screen are jumbled and along with that I am facing some other screen related problem. I don’t know what is happening to my system. So please tell me some screen related solution so that I can try this on my system to get out from this problem.

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    Re: Inspiron 8500 laptop screen flickers and Images jumbled

    If your laptop screen flickers on and off then this is happening because of inverter issue. The inverter is the one which provides power to the backlight of screen. Then you have to replace it. Inverter is simple to replace as well as generally rate about $100. If you are using a system in which display is using a solid white color, in that case the trouble is probably be because of cable association among the monitor with the system board. Then first open up your system in addition to confirm that the cables as well as connections are set correctly as well as undamaged.

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    Re: Inspiron 8500 laptop screen flickers and Images jumbled

    Most of the times laptop users will observe images that everything jumbled. This will happens only due to the video card. One fast way to decide whether or not it is your monitor that is the reason behind the screen to be jumbled is to connect another monitor to your laptop using the VGA port. If the other monitor show jumbled images, then it is in all probability your computer's video card and not the monitor.

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    Re: Inspiron 8500 laptop screen flickers and Images jumbled

    Hey from my opinion this problem is related to graphics card. To resolve this issue just restart the laptop in Safe Mode by pressing the F8 key at startup before the Windows logo appears. After booting in to the safe mode take out the graphics card driver, lastly install the latest driver or one that worked previously again. It possibly that the pilot might not be installed in safe mode, in which case, just restart the laptop will load a generic VGA driver. The driver of the graphics card will be able to then install. If this does not help, think to uninstall items just installed before the crash.

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    Re: Inspiron 8500 laptop screen flickers and Images jumbled

    Sometime this display issue may happen if your laptop is overclocked. This will occur for the reason that you are playing the entire game in high resolution. At high resolution your system get extra power to process so make sure the unit it might get overclocked. Another reason for this kind of difficulty is that it is possible that your graphic chip has inner damaged or it not capable to fetch power form system to display a vision in high resolution. May this will help you.

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    Re: Inspiron 8500 laptop screen flickers and Images jumbled

    Before you make a decision to go ahead in addition to outright replace your laptop screen, it is wise to troubleshoot the difficulty. If damage to a screen is noticeable then it will generally need full replacement, other types of damage that are observable on the laptop screen might not be due to the screen itself. This is why before you replace the screen, certainly once troubleshoot the problem.

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