Annoying red line through my computer monitor

viper_930

viper_930

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I just got back home from a family dinner to find a red line running vertically on the left side of my laptop monitor. Before I left for the dinner, I ran my spyware/adware removal programs: Microsoft AntiSpyware, McAfee VirusScan, Spybot S&D, and Ad-Aware professional. I do this regularly without problems. I have tried rebooting a few times, but the line even appears during the reboot. Have also tried doing a system restore and reinstalling video drivers. Anybody got any ideas to why this happened? If you need any more info, just ask the question. TIA
Here's a pic of what I'm talking about. You can see the red line on the left side of the screen running vertically. It appears ontop of everything, never behind.
 
dvs

dvs

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Turn it off and then back on.
NM, maybe I should read better. Forgive me. Its early and I havent had my full pot of coffee yet.
Maybe turn it off for like 15 mins.
HTH
 
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tuningvis

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i would hate to say it but it looks as if your screen has taken the big poop
... call a computer repair place and just ask them ... they should be able to tell you for sure ...
sorry
 
007

007

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That happens when that row of pixels has, for lack of a better word, died. In your case, the blues and greens have died leaving the red.
Unfortunately it is not a fixable problem. :nope: On a positive note though, its not likely to spread/get worse
 
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tuningvis

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is there a master charge at the end of a row ..?? if so.. then that thing got shorted maybe and blew out the blue and green ?
i always thought that each pixel is sparked on it's own... or is that only in plasmas?
 
007

007

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Originally posted by tuningvis
is there a master charge at the end of a row ..?? if so.. then that thing got shorted maybe and blew out the blue and green ?
i always thought that each pixel is sparked on it's own... or is that only in plasmas?
Thats probably more likely the case . . . but either way, the end result is the same. I am just going by how it was explained to me by a service tech at Dell.
 
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