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black lines on my laptop screen
Anyone know why these have appeared .... and especially if there is an easy, cheap and safe fix I can do? Or to prevent their further expansion (see below)
It is an old HP Elitebook G2, Windows 10 Pro (64) 1803 and recently puffed the battery (heating cause was likely corrupted Power Management driver, downloaded fresh defaults from HP, seemed to help, but too late for battery now removed and only running on external power. There was first only a small pyramid of 3 rows of small black dots a few days ago, one dot (or dash)on top, space, 2 under it, space and maybe 4 on the bottom. Has now expanded to this and seems to grow a bit daily, in thickness and length. The lines are in the SCREEN and cannot be "snipped".
Also suspect maybe loose connection to SSD or somewhere. Other possible cause: in the beginning when I noticed heating, sprayed liquid evaporating COLD gas sold for laptops into underside fan inlet vents as well as fan exhaust. Fan is working correctly, maybe damaged something in the process?
laptop screen sketch