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Can anybody tell me what this is? It bothers me.

tktaylor1

tktaylor1

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I just noticed this when I got off the internet. If you look to the very left of the pic you will see a green line down the side of my screen. It just happened. I don't know what it is. I restarted my laptop but it didn't go away.
 

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okay I lied you can't see the line. but there is a very thin green line going down the very left edge of my monitor on my laptop.
 
If the green line is there but doesnt show on a screenshot, it is a hardware issue...usually forewarning of a failing lcd panel. Let me guess, its only about 1 pixel wide and runs vertically all the way from top to bottom? I have a desktop LCD monitor doing the same thing. Been like that over a year and still hasn't gone out yet, but its annoying.
 
Try searching using MRoogle (http://mroogle.*************/) you'll find a few threads concerning this.

A loose connection seems to be one idea, so maybe it's not too bad.
 
Dalton63841 said:
If the green line is there but doesnt show on a screenshot, it is a hardware issue...usually forewarning of a failing lcd panel. Let me guess, its only about 1 pixel wide and runs vertically all the way from top to bottom? I have a desktop LCD monitor doing the same thing. Been like that over a year and still hasn't gone out yet, but its annoying.
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Yes that is exactly right. I have apple care, will they fix it? I just got the laptop last year in may. Also how long do you think it will be before this gets any worse?
 
It's not a line, it's a really, really small font. It says, "worst record in baseball". HTH.
 
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I thought it was supposed to be the thin "red line"... ???
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Dalton63841 said:
LMAO While I get the feeling this is a reference to something...I have seen the vertical line in bad monitors be red, blue, or green.
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The Thin Red Line is a term for a thinly spread military unit holding firm against attack. The term originates in a journalist's description (a "thin red streak tipped with a line of steel") of the appearance of the red-coated 93rd (Highland) Regiment and parts of the Turkish army as they stood before (and repelled) a vastly superior force of Russian cavalry at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War. The phrase later took on the metaphorical meaning of the barrier which the relatively limited armed forces of a country present to potential attackers.
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From Wikipedia.... note that there is an American war film that uses this as a title, but the original usage is the British Crimean War one.
 
I can see the green line but I have no idea what it is. :\

(To see it, make sure to maximize the image and place the Safari window against a dark background.)

What's weird about that line is it starts like maybe 50 pixels from the top left of the screen and then runs all the way down to the bottom.

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Have you tried changing the desktop image to something else? (I don't mean that as a joke but I can see how it could be taken that way. lol) Maybe the image got corrupted?
 
raygungirl said:
I can see the green line but I have no idea what it is. :\

(To see it, make sure to maximize the image and place the Safari window against a dark background.)

What's weird about that line is it starts like maybe 50 pixels from the top left of the screen and then runs all the way down to the bottom.

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Have you tried changing the desktop image to something else? (I don't mean that as a joke but I can see how it could be taken that way. lol) Maybe the image got corrupted?
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Actually his second post points out that the green line is not visible. What you are noticing is pretty normal for an improperly sized image set as a background.
 
I don't take team sports seriously, I was just joking. Money ruining it? Yup. Politics? Yup. Whatever. I really like individual sports, for fun... not competition. Kayaking, rock climbing, cycling, etc. But that's another thread.

I'm not sure about this, but... if the line shows up in the screenshot, wouldn't that mean it's not the display itself, but further down in the video card, driver, or even the wallpaper? Have you tried different wallpaper? Try one that's all white, see what happens.
 
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Dalton63841 said:
Actually his second post points out that the green line is not visible. What you are noticing is pretty normal for an improperly sized image set as a background.
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I can see the green line in the OP's original post (when I magnify the image). Since the line doesn't extend the entire length of the screen, I think it is most likely a problem with the image used for the desktop background.
 
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