Re: [SLUG] dark line on monitors

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Wed Aug 02 2006 - 23:26:16 EDT


On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, michael hast wrote:

> Hey, all!
>
> I have a weird one for you here! When I first got my 21" monitor, I
> noticed a couple of dark lines that ran across it, East to West, in one row
> of pixels each. At the time, I was running an ATI card and had assumed that
> it was some kind of flaw with either the card or the monitor. I felt like I
> could live with it given the price of the components. Since then, I've been
> using that same monitor, joined with another 21" monitor and a new NVidia
> card. Just now, I happened to notice that those two lines that I had long
> since tuned out, are spanning both monitors. That kind of blows out the idea
> of the card since I'm using a different video card now, and that eliminates
> the idea of the monitor since it's on two now. I am at a loss as to what it
> could possibly be. Any ideas? Thanks!

I think that's a stabilizing wire for the up-and-down shadowing wires. Are
there two of them, at about 1/3 and 2/3 its height?

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