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Hi
Can any one help Ive been ask to look at a iBook G3 tanagrine, But the monitor has developed a black line about 1/2 inch from top to botton is this a hardware or software problem.

I would really appricate any help

Paul

Hi Paul,

Best guess, without seeing it would be hardware !!

If you have the original Mac OS Disks that came with it, boot up from one and have a look at the screen, this will rule out software, if the screen is okay whilst booting up from the OS install cd's then you will have to do a Software reload...

...but like I said earlier I would imagine that this is hardware, is there a story to the screen getting a stripe...or did it just 'happen', was it dropped ?

regards

Ric

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Hi Paul,

Could be a number of things wrong with it !

New Screen $199.99

Display Cable $49.99 (loose cable ?)

You could try the Apple Hardware Test CD/DVD that may throw some light onto it.

If not then it might need a trip to your local Apple Store !

As I say could just be a loose cable !

regards

Ric

Left or right side?

May just be the connector cable...they do tend to get brittle and "break".

C