My 4 year old Inspiron 6000, XP Laptop screen sometimes has white lines running horizontally across the screen when I boot it up. When I connect my laptop to my TV the lines go away. I can also make the lines go away if I wiggle the screen (cover) open and close. Should I replace just the screen or the whole laptop?

You could try removing the display device in device manager then rebooting. At boot up windows will reinstall the drivers.
Check for new display drivers at Dell's support site.

Hi There,

Probably the easiest way to repair/replace the boot sector is using an XP install Disk. You need to insert the disk, restart the computer, and begin pressing the F12 Key during Bootup. You should be given a Boot Menu. Select your CD/DVD drive as the drive to boot from. Let windows XP do its setup and you will halt at a screen that gives you a chance to Press R for repair. Press R. You will be in DOS mode with a cursor blinking. Type FIXBOOT and press the enter key. Follow the propmpts.

If this does not fix your boot sector, go through the same whole process again but at the cursor type in FIXMBR and hit the entr key. This is to repair the Master Boot Record.

If neither of these tools get you booted back into Windows, then you could have any one of a number of other issues, It would be difficult to address them all in this forum.

I don't wish to be a doomsayer, but an Inspiron 6000 could easily be 5 years old, the same as the expected normal life of a hard drive.

Best of Luck.
TheSelkie

You got a bad LCD screen. no immediate resolution aside from getting the LCD replaced. if your system still has warranty call Dell for replacement.

Hope it helps!

OUCH... Might need a new harddrive or motherboard. Does it even let you go into the bios? Maybe you can do a full reinstall to save you the dough.

You'll have to live with it. It's taken damage, it's not repairable, it's only replaceable. My Latitude screen was replaced after only 2 1/2 years.

The screen cable is most likely damaged. Try connecting an external monitor. If it works, you need to take the computer to a repair center to have the cable changed.

sounds like your lcd screen is on it's last legs...time for a replacement..

It is one of three things usually Bad cable at the hinge, Failed inverter board, or failed backlight. Probably inverter. Not to difficult to repair. Check cable first because it is inexpensive and easy. Check the inverter and replace if needed . Sometimes you can buy one used cheap with a bad motherboard and swap the top.

Sounds like the flyback transformer is bad. couple of 100 dollars if it is that

Horizontal lines on bottom third of my Toshiba (Satellite Pro) Laptop with XP windows got fixed by flicking my finger on the laptop screen! Was it a loose connection? I don't know. Change of screen resolution did not help, Rebooting, did not help nor restoring to prior dates. Thank you guys.