Line on iMac screen

2012-02-19 Thread Adrian Skehan
Good evening all I was at my daughters place this afternoon and noticed that a thin red line had appeared on her iMac screen, it is on the left side about 15mm in and extends from just below centre to the bottom of the screen. I presume this is a dead pixel. It is a 21 iMac about 12 or 13

Re: Line on iMac screen

2012-02-19 Thread cm
Hi Adrian, Most monitors have a warranty against a certain number of dead pixels within a certain timeframe but a thin red line does not sound like dead pixels. A dead pixel is usually the loss of one of the three colours of the red-green-blue trio (RGB) within a single pixel. The closely

Re: Line on iMac screen

2012-02-19 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Adrian, Not good news I'm afraid. This is possibly a fault in the LCD screen, this has been a problem with the older iMacs, and unfortunately for your daughter the extended service programended some time back. Fault in the LCD screen.

Re: Line on iMac screen

2012-02-19 Thread Adrian Skehan
Thanks for that everyone, I will look further into it and report back. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 19/02/2012, at 9:29 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, Not good news I'm afraid. This is possibly a fault in the LCD screen, this has been a problem with the older iMacs,

Re: Line on iMac screen

2012-02-19 Thread Rod Lavington
My father's iMac at work had about 7 lines come up, which is a fault in the LCD and not blown pixels. In the end, it was cheaper to replace it with a new 20 imac than go through the hoohar of getting it fixed (it was an early 17 Intel iMac). Needless to say, he is happier with the new iMac :D