Laptop went through airport xray, now screen is messed up! Help!

my G4 powerbook went though an LAX xray machine and now my screen is flickering with different colors. The porgrams and hardware work fine, its just that the screen keeps flickering and waving with different colors, primarily blue and purple. Someone told me to demagnitize the screen, but any other solutions would be helpful

Hi, Osegood. It's undoubtedly a coincidence that your screen happened to start acting up after going through the airport x-ray scanner. Many thousands of laptops go through x-ray scanners every day with no ill effects. That said, it does sound as though you have a hardware problem of some sort. If the display misbehavior persists even when you've started the PB up from a bootable CD (such as your Panther installer disk 1), then it is indeed a hardware fault rather than something software-based, and will probably require diagnosis and repair by a technician.

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