The pink screen of death
I have a Medion laptop about 3 years old running Windows XP. Recently, the screen background colour has become pink and images have distorting pink patches and stripes.
The pink screen had been an occasional problem fixed by logging off and restarting but it is now there all the time. I believe it is sometimes called the “pink screen of death”.
Is it a hardware problem or is there a software fix? Any help would be appreciated.
We haven’t come across the Pink Screen of Death before. The normal screen of death is colored blue although Microsoft did experiment with a red screen for a while.
In this case, the pink screen is probably due to a defective connection between the screen and body of the laptop computer.
While it might be worthwhile getting your local computer shop to have a look and see if it’s a loose plug, it’s more likely to be a damaged cable or hinge.
Given the age of the computer, you’ll probably find a fix is either impossible or prohibitively expensive.
We’d recommend getting a new system.
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August 28th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
I own a Medion laptop of the same vintage but the screen is left open at all times and it still functions well.If you open and close your screen constantly there could be fatigue fracturing of the wiring from the body to the screen.The same thing will happen to those cars with electric winding mechanisms in time.
This could be time consuming and therefore costly to fix.