Shifted screen and wrong resolution

hey
I have SL510 and since couple of days before my screen is not working well.
the problem is that th disply is shifted to the left leaving a 3cm black lince, and also the hight is not align with the monitor.
the resolution is very bad.
we tried to:
1) install latest drivers from inter site
2) update bios
3) boor from  windows and Linux live CD
everything is left the same, the weird thing is that is also happening when I enter the bios configuration so it doesn't seem to be a driver issue
please advice if you know about a solution or might know the source of this problem
thank you 

Hi, minow
From what you described, I think this is a hardware issue. The question that remains is which piece of hardware could be causing the issue. One form of troubleshooting you can do is to hook up an external monitor and try to display video to that. If the video looks good on the external monitor, then the issue is likely either the LCD cable or the LCD panel itself. If the issue does present itself on the external monitor, then the issue is likely on the systemboard.
Hope it helps,
Adam
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