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Let me give you the story.
I set my (running) laptop on the floor next to my bed and get up, accidentally push a chair with wheels over to my laptop and hear a quiet crack. I shrug and go drink some water. When I come back, I pick it up. Now please note that the chair was in no way ON my laptop, just touching it, you know? Like it nudged my precious little ASUS or something. Anyway, I suspect nothing until I pick it up, when suddenly, shock.
Major, major shock, because the happy little turtle who belongs in my background? One of his flippers and a good part of his shell are covered by freaky lines on my screen. I have a good inch of these vertical lines on the top of my screen. These are partially big turquoise blocks, partially scary neon green lines, and partially a black and white haze. Also, off to the side a little bit I have about a half inch of colorful lines running down my screen.
I freak out.
Majorly.
Hoping for some dumb reason that restarting my computer would fix this (I'm a Windows user, it's my default Troubleshooting Step 1), I try that. Of course, it doesn't work. The lines are still present, thank you very much. Everything else still works, though, and if I put forth a super lot of effort I can see through those lines, so I decide to Google. Of course, as soon as I've opened my browser I can't see any search bars or the like, because hey, lines! After blindly clicking the general region of the Minimize button, I find it (yay!) and then rescale the browser so it fits right into the large square where there are no lines. This happens to be the part of my screen featuring the happy little turtle.
After 10 minutes of hopeless searching, I come to the conclusion that this is unfixable. It's either the graphics card or the monitor, and I'm leaning towards the later. That means I actually have to replace it, something I lack the money and the skill to do. I'm sorry, I'm not one of those people who can buy a replacement off of Ebay and then get this shit done with only a screwdriver and an Youtube tutorial. I'm afraid I would break the entire thing.
And like I said, broken laptop monitors don't really fit into my budget. Since the things is still technically functional I'll have to keep using it for awhile. Oh God, why did this happen to me? Life is so unfair.
I have no idea what I'm supposed to do. Would one of you guys like to buy me a new screen? No? Okay, I guess. I'll suffer over here on my own.
No, seriously, tell me if you have any ideas. TELL ME! I'm desperate.