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TV screen lines are an irritating occurrence, and many different issues with the TV can cause them. This article will go over what causes this, whether or not you can fix it depending on the cause, and how to fix it.
When any part of a TV"s display gets damaged, corrupted, or is defective, it can cause lines to appear on the screen. Some TV parts that can cause horizontal lines to appear are the LCD panel, T-Con board, or row drivers.
Issues with these parts can happen for many reasons, and the way your lines appear can tell you a lot about what"s wrong. If the lines are new, one of these parts was likely damaged.
If you"re seeing colored horizontal lines, it may be because of the T-Con board. If other parts don"t seem to be an issue, this part of the TV could be causing the lines.
If lines appear on your TV, you"ll want to inspect the TV itself. You can fix some issues that cause lines to appear, but others may require a professional or a new TV altogether. Some of the most common causes of horizontal lines are:
LCD screen damage. The LCD provides your TV display with light. If you"re handy, you might be able to fix this by doing a little work with the insides of the TV, which you can read about below.
Knock or tap on the back of your TV. If the issue is with cable connections, this could solve the problem. It could also indicate a problem with your T-Con board. It won"t fix the issue, and the lines may reappear, but it can give some insight into the problem. If it"s your T-Con board, you"ll want to have T-Con replaced.
Take a look at the LCD screen. If it"s damaged, you may want to get the screen repaired or replaced. It may be a less costly option than buying a new TV altogether.
Vertical lines on a TV appear for the same reasons as horizontal lines: loose cables and wires, screen damage, or a faulty T-Con board. Leaving the TV turned on for too long can also cause vertical lines.
The steps for fixing lines on your TV will also work to fix TV glitches like flicker and stutter. For example, check the cables and connectors and ensure there"s no issue with your input device.
Whether they appear as thin or thick, black or white, in the center of your screen or along the border, vertical lines on a TV or computer screen certainly interfere with your viewing experience. Unfortunately, these lines may signify a severe technical problem that"s disrupting the signal between the unit"s processor and its liquid-crystal display, or LCD, screen.
The T-CON board, short for timing control board, is the part of an LCD screen that relays messages between the device"s processor -- it"s brain -- and the display itself. The T-CON board is responsible for synchronizing different parts of the screen with the information it receives from the processor. When the T-CON board fails, the timing between different parts of the board is disrupted, leading to errant lines, both horizontal and vertical, as well as pixelation. The only fix is to have the T-CON board replaced, which generally means replacing the whole LCD screen and usually the entire device with it.
TABs, or tape-automated bondings, are an integral part of any LCD monitor. These bondings digitize the information they receive from the processor and send it to the tiny transistors that create the electrical currents that ultimately affect which colors you see on screen. A TAB fault -- also called a TAB failure -- happens when these bondings are damaged or otherwise disconnected from the processor. When this happens, entire rows or columns of pixels go dark because they aren"t receiving any messages from the processor to create their colors. TABs can usually be reattached by a professional TV repair person but over time may become so loose and so repetitively problematic that they may need to be replaced entirely.
Short for low-voltage differential signaling, LVDS cable systems use twisted copper wires to carry high-performance data. This technology is more energy efficient than earlier electrical systems used in LCD products and can reduce the electricity costs to power the unit. However, when the copper wire that makes up the LVDS is compromised, through either a jolting impact or residual damage, it interferes with the signal it transports from the processor to the LCD screen. As with a T-CON board failure, this results in pixelation as well as vertical and horizontal lines on the screen.
While some vertical lines are the result of damage to your screen, other causes have nothing to do with you, your screen or even how you use it. Instead, the lines may be tied to the video source. Anything that interferes with an Internet, cable or satellite signal, such as an improperly aligned satellite dish or a frayed coaxial cable, has the potential to cause picture distortion, including but not limited to lines on the screen and pixel problems. Even the source itself can transmit images with lines on it; for example, a local TV news station that suffers signal interference during a live shot may broadcast images with lines, pixelation or ghosting.
Vertical line charting is a technique used by technical traders and market technicians to track the price moves of a security. In vertical line charting, the price action over a specified period is summarized by a vertical bar. The security"s high and low prices for the period are denoted by the top and bottom of the line, respectively, while its opening and closing prices are indicated by short horizontal bars to the left and right of the vertical bar, respectively.
A vertical line chart provides information via its high and low points and small horizontal lines to the left and right of the line. When all these prices are shown for each period, it is typically called a bar chart.
If the vertical bar is long, it signifies strong movement. There was a large difference between the high and low. If the close (line on right) and open (line on left) were similar, the buyers and sellers were in balance or are indecisive.
The following chart of Alphabet (GOOG) shows daily vertical lines. Since the lines include information on the low, high, open and close, this would typically be called a bar chart or a OHLC chart.
Traders have the option of customizing the type of information the vertical line shows. It can include the high, open, low, close. Including more of these data points provides more information on how the price moved over the period. Most single time periods are not important in and of themselves. It"s how the price moves over multiple time periods that matters.
Vertical line charts show the historical record of how an asset moved. Interpretations of the chart are subjective and should be thoroughly tested for validity before attempting to rely on historical price movements to forecast future movements.
It"s also possible that the LCD itself is broken but that is usually accompanied by some signs of physical stress in the form of cracks on the edge of the display or in the plastic around it.
Immediately upon initial installation, it had thin colored vertical lines, about 20-30 lines, in a vertical band about ten inches wide, right in the middle of the screen.
It has a very interesting set of white nearly-horizontal lines which appear at its bottom-most part/border. These lines swirl into a vertex at the right one third of the bottom of the black area. These lines are thin and grayish-white.
Vertical lines appearing on LCD screen is very common. Whether the screen belongs to a laptop computer or desktop PC, mobile phone, or even a television, the fault is usually due to the ribbon cable and its connections.
A faulty ribbon cable can cause all sorts of havoc manifesting in bright vertical lines. Sometimes they can be coloured lines such as blue, green, grey, black, and red. The lines can appear thick or thin and on just one-half of the screen. Sometimes the fault will manifest as two vertical white lines. You can even get horizontal lines as well.
If you have lines appearing on the LCD screen, then the first simple thing to check is the seating of the ribbon cable that connects the display panel to the motherboard. Most of the time, the fault is with the poor connection made by the ribbon cable.
One of the most common problems with ribbon cables is oxidation of the contacts. It can happen either on the ribbon cable contacts or on the socket contacts. Manufacturers often use a mix of gold and copper for the electrical contacts, however, if they have not used enough gold, then oxidation occurs over time. This results in a working television or laptop screen suddenly exhibiting lines.
One of the most common faults with laptops is that the ribbon cable connecting to the LCD panel cracks. It typically fails near the hinge area due to flexing in that region, and over time, some of the tracks on the plastic cable breaks. I have seen these types of faults on many laptops. It does not matter whether it is a Lenovo, IBM, Acer, Samsung, Toshiba, or even a MacBook Pro!
This type of fault can also occur on LCD televisions; however, it tends to be on new units, where the box has received an impact during transit from the factory.
I used this same method of troubleshooting to repair an LCD television recently. Modern televisions have a video out socket, and if you feed the signal from that to another monitor, you can check for the quality of the video display. If the external monitor does not show lines, then you know for sure that it is a connection issue. Hence, this method of troubleshooting works for some of the modern televisions as well.
When half of the vertical interlace is missing showing a picture that is broken up vertically, the display appears with vertical lines. This is usually due to a cracked ribbon cable.
Generally, for laptops a replacement cable is always required due to it breaking near the hinge. I had this Dell laptop and replacing the LCD ribbon cable solved the problem. I managed to buy a replacement from Dell for a modest price £6.00. The laptop was just outside the warranty period; however, they still shipped out the cable free of charge. This is the reason why people buy Dell. In my experience Dell tend to stand by their customers and products, and their prices for replacement parts are realistic and down to earth.
If the issue persists on the external monitor, it may be an issue with the video card (GPU) or video settings and not the laptop LCD panel. Go to verify display or video issues in Windows Safe Mode. Otherwise, go to the next step.
Performance issues may occur if there is any damage to the LCD screen. The display may stop working, work intermittently, flicker, display horizontal or vertical lines, and so on, if there is damage to the display screen.
Dell laptops have integrated diagnostic tools that can determine if the screen abnormality is an inherent problem with the LCD screen of the Dell laptop or with the video card (GPU) and computer settings.
When you notice screen abnormalities like flickering, distortion, clarity issues, fuzzy or blurry images, horizontal or vertical lines, color fade, running a diagnostic test on the LCD helps identify if the issue is with the LCD panel.
Press and hold the D key and turn on the computer to enter the LCD built-in self-test (BIST) mode. Continue to hold the D key until you see the entire screen change colors.
If you do not detect any screen abnormalities in the integrated self-test mode, the LCD panel of the laptop is functioning properly. Go to the Update the video card (GPU) driver, monitor driver, and BIOS section.
If you notice any abnormalities in the LCD built-in self-test mode, contact Dell Technical Support to learn more about repair options that are available in your region.
Display settings like brightness, refresh rate, resolution, and power management may affect the performance of the LCD screen on your Dell laptop. Changing or adjusting the display settings can help resolve several types of video issues.
If the diagnostic tests on the LCD panel and the video card (GPU) passed, it is most definitely an issue that is related to software that is installed on the computer. If the above troubleshooting steps did not resolve the issue, you may try to restore the computer to factory default settings as a last resort.