[Bistro-Sidecar]

Hi,

I opened my white Macbook today and the screen had a blank, white line running down the middle (about 3cm wide). It's just blank but the rest of the sreen still displays everything. I can never remember anything damaging happening to my Macbook and I take really good care of it so I'm at a loss as to how this could have happened. Is there anyway to fix it without bringing it back to apple? I live in Ireland, Apple's European headquarters are here so it's not a big deal to send it to them but I would rather not. If anybody could help I'd be really greatful.

[Simon]

Run Apple Hardware Test and see if it reports any errors. That will tell you if it's serious.

AHT is on your install DVD. Boot from it and hold d.

[cwkmacuser]

I've had this problem on a PowerBook G4.

Turns out there were missing or misalligned (I can't remember which) pixels.

You would have to get it repaired by Apple.

[Art Vandelay]

AHT won't tell you if there's a problem with the LCD, only the GPU. You need to take it to Apple, there is nothing you can do yourself to fix it.

[Simon]

That's right. If the blank area persists throughout restarts it's likely a display problem that needs to be fixed by Apple.

[cwkmacuser]

BTW, welcome to MacNN Bristo-Sidecar!