Bob Larter wrote:
Barry Watzman wrote:
The most common cause of lines or bands in an LCD display is not blown
driver chips, it is failed ribbon cable connections between the board
with the driver chips going to the actual LCD glass. The bonding of
the ribbon cable to the glass itself fails.

It amounts to the same thing, & both are equally unfixable.


Sometimes...
Sometimes...
you can run your thumbnail across the place where the cable overlaps
the glass and cause a reconnect.

Sometimes...
you can shim the area to apply more force to the bad area.

Whaddayagottolose?