IMac G5 17" display w/ thin vertical red line - top to bottom

Greetings:
I purchased an Apple iMac G5 last year (2004) for my son's Xmas present. He informed me of a thin vertical red line several months ago that would come and go. I am just now a few days over the one year warranty period and unfortunately now just getting time to look into the problem. The serial number indicates that it is one of the G5's that are under an extended warranty for video and power problems.
Q) Has anyone else experieced this problem? If so, what has been your solution? Hopefully, Apple will provide some type of fair solution to this problem. Note: the line seems like it is one pixel wide extending all the way from the top of the screen to the bottom. There are some times when the computer first comes on that the line is not there.
Thank You,....
Imac G5   Mac OS X (10.3.4)   Serial Number W84510T1PNY

Seems to be the same problem as me...
Nobody has replied to my post
Good luck.
Imac G5 20''   Mac OS X (10.4.3)   1.8 Ghz PowerPC G5 - 512 Mo DDR SDRAM

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