Growing display issue

[TheRandomness]

So uh, I've not seen this anywhere else so, well, here's to hoping.

 

 

This has been going on for a little while now. It's an Asus FX505DT (R5 3550H and GTX 1650), less than a year since I bought it and this actually started a month or three ago. Slowly this black bar has been growing upwards and taking over my display. However, as you can easily see, some parts of it still appear to be working. The red bars are actually the little red underlines on icons on the taskbar when open (you can see the thicker one is the currently focussed program or however you'd put that). And sometimes, it'll just, start working again perfectly. Sometimes the whole screen will just die, but a restart usually fixes that.

 

For a little bit of extra info, the display is on 24/7, and brightness is changed daily (y'know, lower brightness at night, brighter at day and all that). The laptop is kept away on vibrations and elevated on my desk, and it's mostly dust-free. It's been opened once before to add in an extra hard drive, but that's about it.

[CommanderAlex]

If its still under warranty, I would personally RMA it as this appears to be some sort of hardware issue and is progressively getting worse as you mentioned. 

[.Apex.]

I would guess it's a display issue and is caused by the repeated stress being put on the ribbon cable connecting the display to the laptop by opening it and closing it, which means it's more likely a design flaw, I suggest you RMA it and look more into this issue if other people are experiencing this on the same laptop

[TheRandomness]

19 minutes ago, CommanderAlex said:

If its still under warranty, I would personally RMA it as this appears to be some sort of hardware issue and is progressively getting worse as you mentioned. 

I'll keep RMA is the last-resort option. Since there's no warranty-void-if-fucked-with stickers, I'm going try everything else first.

4 minutes ago, Syn. said:

I would guess it's a display issue and is caused by the repeated stress being put on the ribbon cable connecting the display to the laptop by opening it and closing it, which means it's more likely a design flaw, I suggest you RMA it and look more into this issue if other people are experiencing this on the same laptop

Ah, well, you see, I don't think I've closed this laptop since I last got home from uni. Approximately 6 months ago, now. It's always just sat open on my desk.

[vanished]

There isn't much to go on, but it feels like it's not the panel itself, nor the GPU, and also not the internal connection between them (that's just not how displays act if the HDMI, DP, etc. is loose).  It's also definitely not a software thing, so I guess that just leaves the connection from the display driver to the panel (or perhaps the driver/controller chip itself).  That is a thing, right?