I have a Dell Lattitude D610. It has worked faithfully for a couple of
years. However, when an anti-virus program updated itself it became
unstable. I reinstalled everything from an image I had and changed
anti-virus programs. However, in the midst of it a straight horizontal line
has formed across the length of my laptop display. It is there even as the
computer is booting. So, my guess is that there is nothing that can be done
and that it is a defect in the screen. Or, perhaps I am wrong. Any
suggestions? Thank you!

BTW, I am running windows xp home.

Most notebooks have a Analog Video output. To determine if the
LCD or Video card ( Chipset ) is defective you could hook up to
an external monitor. If the horizontal line doesn't display then the
LCD Panel itself has the defect. It does seem unusual that this is
happening just after a image recovery.

"Mark2006" <Mark2006@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a Dell Lattitude D610. It has worked faithfully for a couple of
> years. However, when an anti-virus program updated itself it became
> unstable. I reinstalled everything from an image I had and changed
> anti-virus programs. However, in the midst of it a straight horizontal
> line
> has formed across the length of my laptop display. It is there even as
> the
> computer is booting. So, my guess is that there is nothing that can be
> done
> and that it is a defect in the screen. Or, perhaps I am wrong. Any
> suggestions? Thank you!
>
> BTW, I am running windows xp home.