Wide black vertical band in display.

My computer (MA590LL-late 2006) has just started displaying a 2.5" wide sold black vertical band just left of center. Otherwise it seems to be working just fine. I want to find out if this is an expensive repair before I take it to Apple because, given it's age, it may not be worth fixing. I found one similar problem within these "Discussions" pages but there was no answer. Can anyone help?

If your waranty's up in 6 days, I'd ship that thing off first thing tomorrow by whatever method it takes. On the old Titanium PowerBooks (and actually on some of the Aluminums) that line meant a pinched display cable or something in the display itself failing. Whatever it is, it's not going to just go away, in fact it will probably just get worse until you have to pay to either replace the display (very expensive) or get it rewired (rather expensive.) I'm certainly no Apple tech, but a line problem like that is usually a display issue needing attention before it becomes worse. Even though you'll be without your computer for a while and it sounds like it'll be a pain to ship it and get it back, I'd still give it a try.

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