Here is a good one for you

[zmerlinz]

hi,

well it seems that i am not having too much luck with tech at the minute, not only is the back light on my laptop screen dying (which it will be sent back for, for the second time) there is now a faint blue dotted vertical line down the middle of my screen, not i thought this might be a windows thing with the wrong drivers or something stupid, so i put on both old and new drivers and that didn't make a difference, so to check that it still could be a windows problem, i booted in Linux and the blue line is still there. but the weirdist thing is that, it will only show up against certain colours, like blues and greens and a few shades of yellow.

so could this be a dead pixel thing ??

i could do with finding out what is causing this, so when it gets sent back in the next couple of days i can tell them to sort that out to, cheers

[markman]

Sony monitors have a horizontal line....

[Pix]

You're not having much luck at the moment are you? I starting to think you've picked up my my "ability to kill tech for no reason" curse

Good luck with finding out what's causing the problem, hopefully they'll fix it properly this time (or you could just buy a nice DELL laptop )

[zmerlinz]

markman: what all sony monitors, surely not ??

Pix: why would i want a Dell, i already have one computer that doesn't work, i don't want another one :P

[Pix]

Nothing wrong with Dell laptops, they're quite reliable actually (well apart from De's)

And with a bit of luck the logo would be too big to cover with a SuSe sticker

[zmerlinz]

Originally posted by Pix
Nothing wrong with Dell laptops, they're quite reliable actually (well apart from De's)

And with a bit of luck the logo would be too big to cover with a SuSe sticker

well maybe but it would have to be really big, as i have some big SuSE stickers

[Tygur]

Certain kinds of monitors are supposed to have two faint horizontal lines going across the screen. This is probably what markman was talking about. It's not just Sony, though, and I'm sure it isn't all Sony monitors. It's related to the technology used within the monitor.

I'm very sure that vertical line isn't supposed to be there, especially if it wasn't there before.

[zmerlinz]

are these lines on CRT monitors or LCD, because i am sure there aren't meant to be ones on laptops ?

[Pix]

Originally posted by zmerlinz


well maybe but it would have to be really big, as i have some big SuSE stickers

Doh

I could cover the SuSe sticker with lots of pink stickers though

Faint lines going across a monitor would annoy me

[Tygur]

Originally posted by zmerlinz
are these lines on CRT monitors or LCD, because i am sure there aren't meant to be ones on laptops ?

CRT, not LCD. This won't happen on laptops.


EDIT: Oh, I see. This is a laptop screen we're talking about. I didn't realize that at first.

[zmerlinz]

Originally posted by Pix


Doh

I could cover the SuSe sticker with lots of pink stickers though

Faint lines going across a monitor would annoy me

arrgghhh the lines are annoying, they don't appear at all on this website, but do on others and also my wallpaper !!

[Pix]

That's even more strange that the lines only appear on certain websites, maybe different backgrounds show the lines up more

[zmerlinz]

Originally posted by Pix
That's even more strange that the lines only appear on certain websites, maybe different backgrounds show the lines up more

yeah i think that they are semi-dead pixels, because ussually a dead pixel is bright white on the screen, but i think that these ones are dying when certain colours are being displayed and probably will die later, oh well, ringing the people up on thursday and get this thing sorted out !!

[rinoaheartilly]

The line seems to be a common fault with most moniters, the gateway ones are the worst, the college odered a load, and each none had a line going halfway across the screen. I have a dead pixel, but I've never seen a row of them so I wouldn't really know if that's the problem. Dont' buy Dell!