I have an ACER laptop that is about 2 years old with very little usage. It runs Windows 7 Home Premium. Some time ago on the left side of the monitor screen, about 1.5" from the edge of the screen, a band, about 1.5" wide, made up of very, very fine multi-colored lines, appeared running vertically on the screen. It reminds me of the old Windows Defrag program that showed you how fragmented your drive was with colored lines. Has anyone EVER had this happen and is there a "cure"?
Thank you.................GOOD evening 02bin3

Your issue is not that un-common

Your screen defect can come from a couple of different items.

BAD LCD: can be repaired by replacing the LCD screen assm. This is the most common issue and more than likely your issue
Bad LCD cable: can be repaired by replacing the LCD cable
Bad video chip: Can be repaired but only by a pro that does BGA re-balling
If you have a extended warranty you get it repaired by ACER

Hope this help you, Mike Thank you, hartbeatmr, that sounds a bit above my pay grade so I think it will take a trip to the local computer gurus tomorrow. I've done fairly simple things with my desktop, added memory, new video card, fans, but I don't think I want to mess around with the innards in a laptop. (I would post a "Thank You" to you but for whatever reason, that option doesn't show up for me on this computer.)Hello again 02bin3

You are very welcome and I do agree with you on NOT R&R the laptop. Taking a laptop apart is not easy at all if you have never done it.

One more thing if you have a regular LCD / CRT plug it into the side of that laptop and if the screen is clear than more than likely the laptop LCD is bad and it will not be a cable / chip issue.

Sorry I just thought of this and came back to edit my post.

Just in-case you are not aware of this in the post on the lower left you will see "report to mod, thank XXX, IP" they are a link and not a button. You will not see this while you are creating a post and you will see it only when you are viewing a post.

Hi, the only thing my screen shows in blue is: IP logged and nothing about saying Thank You. I've had this problem for some time and had reported it to "Allan" if I remember correctly, and it just seems to be a peculiarity of my computer and how it views this website.