Green Line on Monitor

I have a PowerPC G5 and a bright green thin vertical line just randomly appeared on the screen and I can't get rid of it? Somebody please help and tell me what to do here. It just happened and nothing changed hardware/software wise on the machine

Ah, okay. I was just trying to get some information without having to spend 10 minutes browsing all the G5 configurations on everymac.com.
By the way, my I am having problems with my car. Can you tell me what is wrong and how to fix it?

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24" iMac displaying small green lines

I'm having a big problem with my iMac 24" when I'm using Aperture or iTunes music videos in full screen mode.
I am getting groups of little green lines about an inch long and a pixel or two deep, stacked in groups of five or six on top of each other like a small wavey flag. These little "flags" are spread all over the display and make for one annoying interuption of either the video I'm watching or the photos I'm editing in Aperture.
Sometimes when I'm scrolling through my shots quickly in Aperture the lines become much larger and then red and blue blocks of lines appear, they disappear again when I give the scrolling a rest for a minute or so.
I'm using 2Gb RAM, the 9600 graphics card and all my software is bang up to date.
Any ideas any one?
John
Cheers
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Clean erase and reinstall to factory conditions did not help with the graphic corruption/glitches.
Here are the actions I've performed so far:
•Got iMac on Tuesday (three days ago) and proceeded to immediately install all updates, including the EFI 1.1 firmware update
•Installed Aperture, the problem started showing itself sporadically
•As I imported more and more Aperture projects the problem started getting more widespread, it started showing up in Dashboard (problem is equal on both internal and external monitors)
•World of Warcraft started showing the flags/squares/lines in the menus, as well as major geometrical corruption in the 3d views (planes intersecting the world, characters warping, etc.)
•Reset SMC (unplug all cables, wait 15 seconds, plug back in without holding power button)
•Reset PRAM/NVRAM (several times)
•Ran without any software in background
•Ran Memtest (5-pass, single user mode for max available RAM) all tests passed
•Ran Apple Hardware Test three times, once the standard test, twice the extended, none show any errors
•Wipe drive, reinstall from restore discs, no updates installed whatsoever, no additional software installed, and it still exhibits the error inside of PhotoBooth, just as it did before, and just as it did for Janet in the post I link to above. PhotoBooth seems to show the most artifacting when the effects are turned on.
I'm taking it in tonight, we'll see what they say. I will keep this thread updated with my actions and any responses I receive.
One thing I feel I should mention is that I don't think it's Aperture's fault. It's just the main indicator for us since we all use it and it makes heavy use of the GPU.
Also, my problem started out small and got bigger over the 2/3 days I was using the machine, indicative of a developing hardware issue. If it was a software glitch, it would be less likely to behave that way.

Weird Green lines

Hey, The display on my iBook "G4 1.2 Ghz" keeps having these green lines appearing on it.... at first i feared that it might need a new monitor but after connecting an external display to it i found that the lines still remained because of this i am now assuming that it is a software problem? I have tried rebooting but still the error remains..
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have you tried to clean installed it,yet?

Satellite L350D-216: Green lines, dots and shadows.

Hello all.
About three days ago, I purchased a laptop (Toshiba L350D, released about July '09 I believe) second hand on a good deal.
I turn it on today, to discover a series of weird green lines, dots and shadows, most of which make areas of text hard to read.
[http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b30/philkensebben/Capture4.png|http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b30/philkensebben/Capture4.png]
You can see them to the right of words and if you look close enough, also surrounding various letters in the Google logo.
[http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b30/philkensebben/Capture2.png|http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b30/philkensebben/Capture2.png]
Not especially clear here (sorry), but the greyed out words in the address bar are very ghosted.
Also, it appears to have replaced solid areas of colours like grey, with a 'dotty' green colour.
[http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b30/philkensebben/Capture1.png|http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b30/philkensebben/Capture1.png]
It appears this issue has also spread onto video, where areas of green are now appearing at random points.
[http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b30/philkensebben/Capture5.png|http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b30/philkensebben/Capture5.png]
I have updated the display drivers with the latest ones available from here, which sadly made no difference.
Any advice on why this suddenly decided to happen and how to get rid of it would be appreciated, I use the laptop for Photoshop and as you can imagine, having areas of green and shadows is rather off-putting when i'm trying to work.
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If an external display (a monitor plugged into the laptop) shows no sign of the fault you can presume the the graphics chip is not at fault, after all it's working fine on the external monitor! If this is the case you don't need a new motherboard. I have repaired many graphic chip faults on laptop motherboards, and find that toshiba are usually quite good at not getting this type of fault.
I would suggest that the problem is more likely to be related to the cable that connects your screen to the laptops board (this is if the lines are vertical). Try moving the screen about on it's hinge and see if the problem goes, you can also slightly twist the screen and see if the problem goes. If you are not confidant to do the job yourself take it to a confident repair shop and they will be able to diagnose the problem. If the lines are horizontal it may well point to a capacitor problem which once again is not a new motherboard, just a decent repair centre which can identify the fault and repair it by replacing new capacitors on your board.
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I have 15 inch Unibody MacBook Pro bought in late 2009. Specs are as below. Initially it was 4GB RAM. I upgraded it later to 8GB OWC RAM.
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Total Number Of Cores:          2
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Device ID:          0x0863
Revision ID:          0x00b1
ROM Revision:          3448
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Depth:          32-Bit Color
Core Image:          Hardware Accelerated
Main Display:          Yes
Mirror:          Off
Online:          Yes
Quartz Extreme:          Supported
Built-In:          Yes
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I bought Lion from App Store recently and installed it successfully on my MBP. After few days when I left my machine running Lion from morning till evening I see a thin green line on the left side of the screen. I tried searching the web and tried few options like restarting the machine, resetting NVRAM and doing Apple hardware test (By pressing D while the machine boots). The Apple hardware test did not detect any problem. The green line still exists.
Please suggest me how to get rid of green line.

Hi Brent,
I took it to apple service center. They did some checks and found out that the display has gone bad and they replced it with new one.
Did you try connecting other display (may be Apple Display or Dell monitor) using an adapter? In my case the Apple service center people tried doing it and the display was appearing just fine without any green line. So the fault was in my MBP display.

Gaps in Green Line?

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Even after I render my video edits in my time line there are still gaps in the green line above.
Is there something wrong with these areas? Because when I run the playhead everything plays and sounds great!
I'm just curios if there will be a problem with these areas when I need to export to encore and don't want a huge surprise.
Any pros out there who can educate me and why theie are gaps in my green line?
Thank you.

Rendering is usually meant to have a more fluid playback of your timeline on the program monitor. It has nothing to do with the final quality on export, unless you tell AME to use the preview files. Then it comes into play. If you use the setting "Maximum Render Quality" no harm is done to your output and the program monitor is only good for having a feel of your edit, not for CC work or the like.
Often people do not render the timeline at all unless the playback is causing choppy or halting frames. If you were to use the export setting "Use Preview Files" then you would notice the generation loss, but if you don't do that, no harm done to your footage.

Transcode settings gives me output with green lines

Hi everybody
My problem is when I transcode a DV AVI file in encore CS3 what I get in the end is the video with a small green line in the bottom part of the screen, this only for the first few minutes!
I tried out different kind of settings but green lines turned out all the same.
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Thought I was the only one with this issue- i guess not-I got almost same issue- a little different though, the first time I imported an mpeg 2 DVD file (exported from Premiere Pro CS4) into Encore CS4 I got green FRAMES (about 2 or 3) at the beginning of the video upon creating an encore timeline and placing the mpeg 2 DVD clip in it.
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I will post a bug report to Adobe- this should NEVER be an issue
prior to CS4 I exported and burned hundreds of DVD's with older versions of Premiere Pro and Encore and never once had this problem
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Fix cost for 1 pixel vertical green line

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And also 3 months after the warranty is over....Strange.....
In general, i'm starting to be disapointed with apple products as like my iphone, i had issue juste after the one year warranty was finished. I'm wondering why?
Please notice that i'm a user since a long time of mac products and didn't had any issue before. It was the reason i was staying a mac user. But now things seems different.
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Vertical green line on Qosmio's G20 LCD Screen

(Sorry for my bad English)
Hi all,
my laptop have a vertical green line on the right side of the screen.this line is visible in BIOS screen also. so i think it is a hardware related issue.but one good thing is that it is not visible in a white background.i don't know why;
Is there any thing i can do other than replacing the screen(i don't have any warranty on the LAPTOP :( )
The problem occurred after installing windows 7 beta edition,it changed my resolution to 1400 * 900 and i think which may cause an overheat on graphics card which may lead to my problem.
Please help me.

> Is there any thing i can do other than replacing the screen (i don't have any warranty on the LAPTOP )
I would not replace the screen before you would not know whats exactly wrong.
I mean there could be also a graphic card issue and not screen issue.
In your case I would recommend connecting the machine to the external monitor to check if the same vertical line would appears on a second monitor.
If the same lines are visible on both screens then its definitely not a screen issue but GPU issue and in such case the mobo must be replaced :(

30" ACD Vertical green lines.

My compueter was in Screen saver mode and when woke it up there are vertical green lines in bunches of 5-8 intermittently across the screen. Is this a monitor issue or a graphics card? Had monitor for 3 months and no such issues before.
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.7) 30" ACD

Could be the display or the video card. Sounds like something is temperature sensitive.
Blow out all the dust in your mac pro.
Reseat the video card.
See if these help.
You would need another display to check the card and another computer to check the display.
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IPhone 5 App Store keyboard glitch -- persistent green lines at bottom of screen

I just brought home my new black 32GB iPhone 5 from the Verizon store. After using it for an hour or so, and switching over to WiFi, I entered my Apple ID password in the App Store to (re)download an app. My password requires me to switch to the ".?123" keyboard. The bottom ~1/5 of my screen became fuzzy, as though the keyboard overlay was sticking around longer than it should have. After a short time, glitch resolved to a state that's been "permanent" - vertical green lines. These green lines fade in slowly after I wake the screen from sleep. They've persisted through multiple power off > on cycles, a hard reset, and even through the upgrade to iOS 6.02. Interestingly, screen captures do not seem to grab these green lines.
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I think this is normaly. I've had some issues (gone through 6 replacements - not trivial issues, dead home button, dead camera, dead wifi that kind of thing). I noticed this on the 3rd replacement and everyone since. People are claiming that they have received "flawless screens" (whatever that means). I think the Sharp pannels are the ones that don't show these interlacing lines and AU Optronic pannels do. I have experience with AU Optronic pannels and everyone that I have ever owned (Motorola Xoom, PC Monitors, etc...) have done this. It is too bad that Apple settled for this manufacturer, but it is a gamble whether you will get one that doesn't do it. It is normal and within specs as most the iPhones at this point with have AU pannels due to Sharp's shortage.
The geniuses will likely not replace an iPhone for this reason. If you have AppleCare+ and have an incident in the future, perhaps you'll get lucky and get a sharp pannel put on to replace the AU pannel. But, there is no way to know which phones have which pannels.
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Qosmio F30-117 - Display issues - red and green lines

Hi there,
I have a qosmio F30-117 and up to recently, I was delighted with everything about it.
Then, mid session, the graphics began to deteriorate, which a reboot fixed.
Then a few days later, it did it again and this time when I rebooted it came up with a corrupted display, lots of aa's all over the place then lines of red and green all over.
Managed to get in by selecting safe mode with networking and got a desktop although still with the red and green lines all over it.
Now its gotten worse still, when I boot up the laptop screen itself is blank, its getting something because it isnt totally black like it is when its powered off, but its blank.
As a check I connected an external monitor and managed to get in again to safe mode with networking, but its still very bad, and still has the red and green lines all over.
I started to have a look around on the good old www and there are numerous posters and articles with problems, and lots mentioning the red and green lines etc...
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Some have mentioned Toshiba acknowledging this as a problem and doing repairs even if out of warranty.
So, any ideas, any advice, and does anyone know if Tosh have indeed accepted the problem and offering any help??
Thanks in advance

Hi
I think it's a common problem in the Qosmio F30 models. After long term use, the soldering balls under the GPU chipset start to melt down because of the over heat and the bad soldering quality that was used with the F30 model that cannot resist high temperature. Now you have to replace the motherboard, since the GPU is build within the motherboard.
However, there is another two solution for this problem and cost less money amount:
1- do what is called a "heat reflow" for the VGA chipset: to do this you have to take the motherboard out and heat the VGA chipset on the motherboard with a heat gun or you can bake it in the oven for a few minutes at low temp, this will make the soldering balls melt and go back to there right position. However, you need to keep in mind that this solution is temporary and will last maybe for month then you have to do it again and again till you ruin the GPU and then the only solution will be to buy another motherboard. So I don't recommend that you do that at all, but if you don't want to spend a lot of money on a new motherboard this will help you to recover your data, even though there is more easier solution to do the recovery.
Anyways, you can go to youtube and search the term "VGA heat reflow " to see how people do it.
2- send your motherboard to a repairing service that can do what is called reballing: what they do is that they will replace the soldering balls under the VGA chipset with new ones that can resist high temp. and this solution is permanent and even in the future you don't have to worry that the same problem will happen again since the new soldering balls can take high temp change. I do recommend this solution even more than buying a motherboard, since the motherboard that you will get will generate the same problem after few years.
you can find this type of repair service online if you googled the term "VGA reball repair" or you can find it on ebay
If you decided to replace the motherboard I think you will not be able to find a new one, and in case you found one it will be more expensive than a new laptop, but still you can find used motherboard for your qosmio on ebay or online. so you need to do a search and find out what fits your budget or maybe it's better to buy a new laptop.
Sorry about your qosmio, and hope that my post will help you!

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http://atothe420k.blogspot.com/
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Hi Were you using the apple store for the repairs you had done? As to the point of taking in to a store to have it repaired and getting it back with the same problem. It should have been taken back to the same store as they have to stand behind what they do. You do not say what they repaired. The store replacing ram without knowing what the problem is ,is questionable. If you are going to change ram for the original apple installed ram, you need to make sure it is compatible with your MBP. One of the best sources for this is Macsales.com. As to the Beeping sounds here is a link on it. You do not say if this is one continuing beep or more than one repeating itself.http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202768

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