My computer moniter has a problem.

[Danger Mouse]

There is a blue line running down the middle of the screen. WTF is wrong with it?

[realisticphish]

1. maybe

you left a raspberry popsicle on top :shrug:

[buzzycrumbhunger]

2. If it's an LCD

I think that's the equivalent of a bad pixel. At least, that was the word from the techies at work when I suddenly had a magenta line down the center of mine. It was brand new and they claimed they're very susceptible, especially if knocked around in transit.

[Danger Mouse]

3. nothing can be done about it?

[RoyGBiv]

8. Nope ...

LCDs are for all intents and purposes "disposable."

You can replace the screen of course, but what you're doing is, well, replacing the screen ... and it's all screen.

[Orrex]

4. Turn it on its side

Then the line will be horizontal.

[Danger Mouse]

5. Excellent! That's much better.

But now it's smoking and shooting out sparks. Should I pour gasoline on it?

[Orrex]

6. Smoking is a filthy habit

And gasoline will make your workstation smell funny.

Maybe take the monitor in the shower with you next time, so you can rinse the line away? Of course, you'll need to keep it plugged in so that you can see your progress.

[Danger Mouse]

7. That's great but I don't have an extension cord.

I think I'll use thermite to 'cleanse' it. Somebody told me that would work.

[Orrex]

10. Especially if its an 888 model.

Thermite does the trick every time.

[Jamastiene]

12. ...

:spray:

[Jamastiene]

9. Oh dear.

It appears that NC turning blue has started off some kind of chain reaction of blue stripes in the space/time/computer monitor continuum. Something told me this would happen. :P

Honestly, I know about this stuff and I've never heard of a blue line...on a computer monitor.

However, I know it can happen on an older CRT television set with an inline pixel array. If you get close enough to older CRT television sets, you can look at the screen for red/green/blue phosphor dots. Some were tri-dot array and others were inline.

I'll try to recreate how that looked.
Inline would look vaguely like this:
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The Tri-dot would look like this:
. . . . .
. . . .
. . . . .
. . . .
. . . . .

Your colors would be evenly spaced in a pattern over and over again all over the front of the screen. You could tell if you looked (while the television was on) which kind it was. Most later models had inline phosphor dots for the electron gun to shoot electrons at and light up to form the pictures that make up whatever you are watching. There was a gun for each color. (insert television sets playing paintball long before we did joke here)

That meant something went screwy that caused that line to stay lit up. Usually, it was a short somewhere.

If you have one of those newfangled computer monitors, it could be either dead pixels or a faulty video chip. Is it under warranty?


http://www.wikihow.com/Fix-a-Stuck-Pixel-on-an-LCD-Monitor

You could try this, I suppose.

[Danger Mouse]

11. I'll look into the warranty. It is fairly new.

[Jamastiene]

13. If it is still under warranty, go for it.

These kinds of problems are rarely REALLY fixable.

I don't know if your graphics card has the option, but you could try holding CTRL down and hitting your right arrow key. On some graphics cards, that tells the video card to turn the entire screen sideways 90 degrees to the right. If you try that, see if the line is multicolored while it's rotated to the right. If it is, you have dead pixels for sure on the monitor and the graphics card is most likely fine. That's one quick way you could eliminate the graphics card as the problem. In that case, it's your monitor that is the problem, for sure. If not, it could be the graphics card.

Just hit CTRL and your left arrow key to turn it back. It's only available after you turn it on in advanced properties IF your graphics card supports it. It's fun too.

Sometimes, it's CTRL ALT and the left or right arrow key instead of just CTRL and the arrow keys. I forgot to mention that variation.

[curse of greyface]

14. If your at work wait till lunch and switch it out with a neighbor. nt

[DS1]

15. Warranty it

3 to 5 dead pixels are usually the limit, an entire line is a definite replacement.