Hi,

Back in May I was advised that the yellow vertical line down the right hand side of my monitor was likely to be a fault in the unit itself. I'm sure that this is most probably correct. But I'm now hoping that it could be the graphics card as this would be a cheaper fix.

I think this because I've recently discovered YouTube and sometimes get a stuttering on the video screen. Could I be right here?

The NEC monitor recommended to me back then is, from the reviews, very good but NEC customer support seems poor if a problem occurs.

I'd really like some advice on this. Here is my system:

Mobo Gigabyte Ga-M57sli-s4
Processor Athlon 3800
Memory Corsair DDR2 1gb twinned XMS
HDD WD 400gb Sata
Graphics Nvidia Gforce 8500gt
Monitor Hewlett Packard HP 1740 17"

I'm only just getting round to doing something about this. If the recommendation is still to get a new monitor, I'd like a manufacturer to go for rather than a specific model. Same goes for a new graphics card.

I don't play games so fairly basic stuff should do me if that's any guide.

Look forward to hearing from you.

Try testing your box, using another monitor and see if the problem persisted ... If not, then the problem is the monitor itself. On the other hand (the problem remains) so is the video card ...

OFF: I'm thinking and it is almost certain to be the monitor!

good luck

Vertical colored ( or white ) lines are always the monitor.

I have one with three lines, different colors : Usable.
And another one with "a hundred" lines. (Not very usable.)

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I agree with the above, that it's probably the monitor. I usually buy Samsung, they're usually cheap and pretty good. Bought 2 monitors and 2 TVs, and not a single dead pixel. I've also had some Sony monitors, but some of the pixels tended to get stuck, not permanently tho. I've never bought a NEC monitor, mostly because that's what the schools tend to use, very cheap but not very good, at least from my experience.

Thank you for your replies.

In a funny sort of way you've managed to re-assure me. I've been expecting that, because of the fault, the monitor would expire in a shower of sparks but, if the lines just get worse, I can wait until they render the screen unusable.

Then, I'll choose a Samsung. A friend of mine has a Samsung TV and it's great. Nice to know that the same applies to their computer screens.

Best wishes, betula.

That's probably not possible, as long as your computer doesn't run on thousands of volts as opposed to the average computer's 12 . The movies really exaggerate it.