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Burning orange glow inside the corner of the laptop; screen is black

One night, played a long session of GTAV for 12 hours. My laptop gets pretty warm during playing. When I was feeling drowsy, I closed the lid of laptop, but forgot to close the game. I reopened the lid, to see a glowing orange glow and a burning smell from that region in the corner of my laptop in the crack between the keyboard and laptop monitor. I opened up my laptop but saw nothing that looked burned, or blackened.

I tried the main 3 methods already on YouTube that deal with the black screen:

  1. The discharging method didn’t fix the black screen.
  2. The ram stick method didn’t fix the black screen. (However, 3 weeks ago, I did install another 8GB of DRAM)
  3. Using the HDMI cable, the display works with the external monitor. I tried unplugging the HDMI cable to see if it’s a backlight inverter issue. The back light doesn’t appear to be the problem, because I don’t see any faint image on the screen with a flashlight.

I researched at it seems like a black screen could be a variet of issues: motherboard, GPU, backlight inverter, the screen itself, and I believed I narrowed it down to either the screen itself, but am scared to spend $74 for a LCD screen replacement and installing it improperly, when I could by another laptop.

Some more background:

I had small purple streaks/flickering on my screen, when I adjusted the angle of my laptop, for about 6 months, around January 2017. So I am not surpeised that the mnitor suddenly "burned out," but in amore dramatic way than I expected. I have had this laptop since 2014 (for 3 years).

Make and Model: ASUS N550JK

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i&-4700HQ CPU @ 2.40GHz

Installed memory (RAM): 16.0 GB

System type: 64-bit OS

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So the laptop turns on? You can hear fans spin up? If you plug it into an external monitor, you can confirm that it still works.

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Hi, Connor! Thanks for the prompt reply. Yes. My laptop turns on, and the fans spin, and the LED signalling that the hard drive is operating is on as well. When I plug it into an external monitor, it works.

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By the sounds of things you've over heated some component in the display or damaged display cables, at this point I'd recommend a full display replacement. You could try replacing parts, but given it's history with display issues I'd recommend a full replacement.

After a quick google, a replacement display is not an unreasonable price.

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Thanks again Connor. I probably did damage the display cables. I'll order a replacement LCD screen and try my best to install it. Thanks for all your help. I'll post later to see if this resolved my issue.

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sounds like a video card issue, however i would be very worried about the orange glow.

please keep us informed what else happens

did you try a external monitor by any chance,

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Thanks, Brandon, for replying. I appreciate it. Would my problem still be a video card issue, when it works on an external monitor? The orange glow and the burning might have been from some foam that I placed into the laptop. I am currently using my laptop as I am typing this using an external monitor and HDMI chord.

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No it wouldn't work on an external monitor if your GPU was dead.

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Thanks Connor! That's what I thought, too, but was not sure and at this point am open to any suggestions.

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