Verticle Lines covering left side of screen

[primer]

Hi to the technical gurus out there.:D

 

When I turned on my Asus Eee PC1008HA there were very thin white lines covering half of the screen precisely to the middle vertically from the left.:( It was fine yesterday and nothing physical has happened to it. They are very fine lines and you can see through them but they are annoying.

 

Please tell me there is something I can do to remove them?

 

Many thanks

:o

[Plastic Nev]

Hi and welcome to Extreme Tech Support - Free PC Help.

Being a netbook, there is a possibility that the connection between the base and the monitor in the lid is broken or a poor connection. This is usually a thin ribbon cable hidden by or inside one of the hinges.

The other possibility is a fault on the graphics chip on the netbooks motherboard.

 

To isolate which is the fault, either the monitor and connections, or the graphics chip, do you have, or can you borrow, an ordinary monitor with a VGA input to match the VGA port on the netbook?

 

If so and that "External" monitor shows a good picture then it will definitely be the monitor in the lid or connections to it.

 

You may need to open the graphics controls to enable an external monitor.

 

If on the other hand the external monitor shows the same fault it may be a driver issue.

 

Please let us know,

 

"A" if you can try an external monitor.

 

"B" what happens when you do.

 

Nev.