Your problem may actually be the LCD monitor itself. Try hooking up a different monitor to your Mac and prove to yourself that the problem is either the monitor or the Mac ( bet it's the monitor) Doug On 6/11/07 11:09 AM, "Michael W. Smith" <mwsmith at usfamily.net> wrote: > After booting up this morning I suddenly have a black line of pixels - about > 4" down from the top - running horizontally across my Flat Panel Monitor. > The monitor is less than a year old. It is a 22" Samsung SyncMaster 204B. > I have rebooted, run permissions repair, checked the monitor display > resolution, checked the monitor's setting via the controls on that, and > rebooted the monitor only - can't think of anything else to do up front. > Any thoughts? I would appreciate the shared wisdom of anyone who has a fix > or similar experience that would tell me the next step. Thanks much.