LCD issues

[jblancarte]

Hello. I'm not too savvy with computer displays, and lately I've been having a problem I can't seem to figure out. For about a week now my lcd has been showing a line going horizontally across it. But it's not a line so much as it is a divider. whenever I'm scrolling through web pages, or watching a movie that has some moderate to fast paced action, that invisible divider line 'thingy' distorts the middle of the lcd.

Is this what dead pixels are? or is it a graphics card related issue? as of now I have a soyo lcd monitor and a sapphire hd4870 gpu.


if anyone could enlighten me on the issue it would be much appreciated. thanks.

 

[sid_nag17]

do you get the line all the time??? if those are dead pixels then they should show up all the time and what are the specs of your monitor?

 

[evongugg]

You can try this software:

Dead pixel tester

http://www.dataproductservices.com/dpt

Try a different monitor. If it repeats, then you probably have a bad video card.