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Got a Toshiba Dynabook Kira V63 from my dad

stingraze Page Icon Posted 2014-07-29 11:13 AM
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I got a Toshiba Dynabook Kira V63 from my dad as a present.

My beloved Sony Vaio Z's screen all of a sudden died, and I suspect I got some bad computer virus.

Here's my screenshot of Kira V63 (I don't like that Metro so I changed it)



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Rich Hawley Page Icon Posted 2014-07-29 12:39 PM
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Very nice Stingraze.

However you know as well as the rest of us that a virus cannot destroy an LCD's ability to function. I mean a fresh reinstall of the OS will take care of that. Only a true hardware failure will cause an LCD to become inoperative.
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stingraze Page Icon Posted 2014-07-30 8:56 AM
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Well, you could be wrong about that. My dad's RT NEC Lavie Y had similar problems, but working fine after installing Windows Defender. There are many many virus out there that can make hardware broken.

Fresh Recovery didn't fix it.

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Rich Hawley Page Icon Posted 2014-07-30 12:36 PM
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I guess if you could reprogram the bios and turn off the LCD at the root level, then a software application could mimic a hardware failure. But the hardware in that case is still good, not damaged at all, it is just being controlled differently.

Maybe if the power to some component was software regulated you might be able to overload a circuit. Still that would be very specific and very unlikely.

On your dad's machine, most likely the recovery was blocked by whatever nasty software was in place.
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TFGBD Page Icon Posted 2014-09-21 6:58 PM
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Yeah, it'd be pretty weird to see a virus destroy hardware on a "modern" machine like that.
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