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>>      During the course of normal operations this morning a mysterious line
>> of darkened pixels appeared on the screen of my PowerBook 520c.  It started
>> at the bottom of the screen, about 6/10ths of the way over from the right
>> hand side and ran up to about the middle of the screen.  It appeared
>> generally as a line of darkened pixels, but would sometimes switch to oddly
>> coloured pixels--the pixels were never actually non-functional, since they
>> still could show correct colours and shapes depending on what the
>> background or window in their region happened to be.
>> 
>
>Carl,
>
>If you're lucky the problem is a loose connector, if you're unlucky you
>may have actually damaged the PCB inside the screen. The solution could
>cost you anything from 50p for a new connector, to �500 for a new
>display
>
>A similar thing happened to me several years ago, but with the B&W
>screen on a PB 520. I eventually I found a broken PB 540c in a computer
>shop (dead motherboard) and added the screen to my working motherboard.
>
>The 'cobbled' together machine is stil running ok to this day. Since
>upgrading to a PB1400/166 it spends all of it's time working on the
>Bovine RC56, adding to the Evanglist team.
>
>-- Kate

How does one ascertain which it is. I had the same problem
occur on my powerbook 5300 except that the display not being 
colour the line was (is) black. I was planning on selling the machine
but I wouldn't pass it on to anyone with this problem still there.
The machine had not recieved much use when this happened
either (18 months of light home use).

Dj
darragh@maths.tcd.ie
Darragh J. Delany, Softech Telecom