Been away a couple of weeks, fired up the monitor ( piggy back from laptop with HDMI ) and there's 3 lines running vertically down it just off centre, they're about 2-3mm width.

 

Does anyone know if this is an easy fix or monitor os completely shagged, it's only about 6 months old.

 

Watched a couple of YouTube videos and there's actually people just give them a good slap which strangely seems to have fixed it for them, i have nont tried this yet and would rather not but if it can't be fixed in a shop......why not?

 

Anyone had the same issue and resolved it?

 

Thanks.

If it's only 6 months old you should hopefully have a warranty to get it replaced. 

 

If not it could be a lot of things. Power supply, tcon, main board, failing connections. Most often with solid color (black) vertical lines and no obvious impact it's where the display ribbons enter into the actual display.

 

So a first step if it's out of warranty is to take it apart, dust everything and look for obvious damage, then turn it on and see if the lines go away while you apply light pressure to the display ribbon connections with a plastic tool.

6 hours ago, RedBackman said:

If it's only 6 months old you should hopefully have a warranty to get it replaced. 

 

If not it could be a lot of things. Power supply, tcon, main board, failing connections. Most often with solid color (black) vertical lines and no obvious impact it's where the display ribbons enter into the actual display.

 

So a first step if it's out of warranty is to take it apart, dust everything and look for obvious damage, then turn it on and see if the lines go away while you apply light pressure to the display ribbon connections with a plastic tool.

 

thanks for the info, i'll get it down the shop to have a look.