Strange markings on screen...

A few things before I get to the point...
-got my MacBook Pro in late August
-I don't touch my screen at all, unless I am cleaning it.
-Nobody else uses my laptop except me.
About 2 months after I got my laptop I noticed some strange marks on my screen. I could only clearly notice them against a white background because they are grey/black.
2 marks close together at the top of the screen, I rarely noticed them. Only against a plain white background, even with little text against a white background it's hard to see. I didn't mind until about a month after that (probably less than that) I noticed another mark on my screen at the very right. It started to bother me and I decided to clean my screen with a damp soft cloth. There were a few smudges that I saw and got rid of them, turned my laptop back on and opened a blank web browser only to notice that they are still there.
I ignored it and continued when couple more markings showed up in the bottom left. Note that these markings are not smudges, but like little black / grey scratches or cracks. I can't physically feel it on the screen, so I'm assuming it has to do with something inside? I don't really know why I decided to post this now, but by the time a year is up with this laptop my whole computer will be covered in little black marks. I have tried hard to get them off, but I can't as they are not "on" the screen.
If you want me to take a picture with my digital camera against a white background I can to point out all the markings and, just takes me a few minutes to upload them.
Oh, and another important thing is that when I tilt my screen all the way back, so you are looking at the screen at an angle where it's turning dark but you can still see... the markings disappear as if they are not there. It's like I have a perfectly clean screen when I tilt it back, but when I look at it properly these markings appear.
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No, the trackpad is not touching the screen and I'm not using a keyboard skin. Sorry for the late response, but here are the links to them.
http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=481144
http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=481145
There are a few more on my screen, but I didn't take a picture because it's pointless, it's the same thing over again. There are more of those types of marks on the bottom left and in a few other areas of the screen. It's annoying on a white screen, so...
There you go, thanks for the help so far!
Note: "Camera on Screen" pictures are messed up, so ignore any lines any pixelation and the brightness, my screen isn't really that grey...

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Hello,
I have a Toshiba Tecra S2 laptop for almost a year now.
I formatted it 2 months ago and when i did this. i had stranges dots on my screen, appearing with no reason and at random. I dont have a clue where it came from and i decided to format my computer again.
I've installed the latest chipset driver from the intel website and then i've installed the latest driver from the toshiba site.
I've noticed the problem is back. so that didn't solve anything. What can I do about this?
PS, not only the dots, but i cant play games also.

HI Jelle,
When you say that you formatted your notebook, did you completely re-install the operating system from the recovery discs ? If you did then the display should work correctly.
If you installed the operating system from Microsoft discs then you will need to download the correct Toshiba drivers for your Tecra from the Toshiba web site download page.
regards,

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Hi all
I just bought a new mac mini at the apple store in SF. Now I just arrived back in Denmark and try it on for the first time and it doesn't boot!
After a few seconds a strange screen comes up which I cannot decipher.
Here's how the screen looks: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kimi_martin/3399724186/
Any help much appreciated.
Thanks.

mamor1999 wrote:
Hi all
I just bought a new mac mini at the apple store in SF. Now I just arrived back in Denmark and try it on for the first time and it doesn't boot!
After a few seconds a strange screen comes up which I cannot decipher.
Here's how the screen looks: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kimi_martin/3399724186/
Any help much appreciated.
Thanks.
Look at that image again and take a guess what it's trying to tell you.

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After replacing my g-card and (me stupid) changing a setting in bios for the graphicscard from PCI to AGP it worked fine for a loing time then later after bbeing uptime for one night long it crashed again. My LED D-Bracket shows different codes but they change so fast I cant really see wjat the issue is. Apparently it stops showing in my handbook : realtime clock problem if I´m not forgetting something. Please help

thanx for the link...
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When theres no beeping at all the D-bracket shows hanging when it tests VGA-bios.
wonkanobey I didn´t quite understand what you said by posting watts and volts of Psu label and so on pleeze xplain

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red and electric blue appeared replacing some of the colours of the images i was looking at... (black being replaced in part)
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thanks
mark

Thanks for the suggestion srojtas.
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The eMac didn't come with a hardware CD sadly, so I can't test it that way!
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