Mike Raiford <"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com> wrote:
> scott wrote:
> > Hehe, we have an ESD gun here for doing exactly that test, hold it on
> > the screen or on one of the connectors and fire!  Usually it does what
> > you say at the higher voltages, blanks out until it can reset (customers
> > don't like seeing garbled random data on the screen while the drivers
> > try to reset).
>
> I had a notebook computer that had a loose connection between the
> controller and the LCD. Every once in a while, you'd tilt the screen and
> get a very strange garbled display...

I knocked an entire can of beer onto my MacBook a couple of years ago. You
should see the interesting brightness pattern the screen now exhibits... :-\

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