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October 4th, 2009, 05:39 PM
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Horizontal shadow lines appearing??
When I started my computer this morning I had horizontal shadow lines about an inch width runing up and down the screen. After a few minutes windows loaded and seemed to be ok, lines were gone. I did a Check disk and had a normal windows startup, no signs of shadow lines. I left the computer for about a half hour and returned to get some work done and the horizontal lines were back. They went away after I used the computer for a minute and as I'm writing this all is normal.
Any ideas? I did bring up Device manager and checked my Video adapter, all was normal and no new updates for drivers. I checked my event log and all was normal there too. Ron Last edited by captainron276; October 4th, 2009 at 06:06 PM. 
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October 4th, 2009, 08:38 PM
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Faint gray lines are a classic sign of a failing video card.
If it's not integrated video, you can try removing the card (with the computer shut down, of course), cleaning the contacts and reinserting to see if it's just dirt on the contacts but I've never had any success doing that. For me, it has always required replacing the video card.
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October 5th, 2009, 04:17 AM
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Thank you for your input, have a video card enroute
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October 8th, 2009, 02:17 AM
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Thank you all; but no luck
 Just installed the new Video card and the lines are still here.What next, my monitor?
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October 8th, 2009, 02:55 AM
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Before you spend more money and if you have access to another computer, connect the monitor to it. If there are no horizontal lines on it when connected to another computer, you'll at least know it's not the monitor.
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October 8th, 2009, 03:14 AM
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Good idea
will see if I can borrow the neighbors pooter to do this on.
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October 9th, 2009, 03:32 AM
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The monitor was the culprit, new one on it's way
Thanks all
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