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I have just developed 'music score lines' right across my screen running top to bottom. They're there right from boot up. Is this expensive?

sounds like new monitor time to me but have you checked the settings for the monitor just to make sure that something hasnt changed and have you tried another monitor to eliminate the graphics card.

Well it has to be hardware but the first thing is to check connections between PC and monitor.  Other than that its a new monitor or graphics card.

How do I put a screen snapshot on A4A?
Maybe someone has seen this problem before.

Press PRINT SCREEN, open Paint, paste it into it, save as jpg and upload.

Cheers Asbean. I knew it couldn't be too difficult.

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Because the pattern is reproducible on a screen shot your monitor is not at fault. If nothing has changed on your computers config it may be your graphic card has a problem.

go into device manager and see what type of graphics card you have and then look to see if there any updates for it and download and apply them, if that dosnt work take out the graphics card and take it to your local computer dealer and get another, may well be an updated version of the current 1 and shouldnt cost more than £35 unless is is a high end pci express type, when removing the graphics card leave the computer pluged in but turned off, so you dont give the comp a static discharge (quite rare but can happen and damage the cpu)

Latest drivers resulted in this. Also a ripple when I curser up/down.
One consolation; it can't be the monitor.
Maybe I should invest in a new graphics card and fan.
Current card in Radeon 9800 XT.

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Hi there,

what i suggest you do is to restart your pc in safe mode, you do this by pressing the 'F8' a few time whilst the pc is showing the post screen.

This will load up without any drivers, if the screen looks ok then its guaranteed a software/driver issue!

if this fails then you can lay the blame on either the graphics card or the monitor, can you try the monitor on another PC or even a laptop?

let me know how you get on ...