Acer Netbook - cracked/stained screen?

What the heck is going on?

Indeed.

Anyone here a Psychic?

This happened to me about a year ago, using the eeepc. I was in Nong Khai and this black mark appeared. I took a close up picture, then another a week apart, and noticed the shape had changed slightly. I posted it and asked but no one knew what it was. The advice was to change the screen. I'm still using it, perhaps a year later now, as the mark is bottom right and doesn't affect me too much. My thinking is that it's some kind of liquid that got there somehow?

I've seen tiny black spots on a screen that are "dead" pixels -- haven't heard of dead pixels appearing as a line.

Ok ... it's a LCD screen. Liquid Crystal ... No liquid 'got in' there. The screen is probably composed of about 7 layers - one of them, has gone toast for some reason. You need a new display. Probably cheaper to replace the Netbook.

I have had a pink line across my screen - my LCD was under warranty. I heard it is a loose solder iron in the screen by the transistor ??? After a while does it go away? Mine does. Warms up - heat expands it .... so it makes contact.

My son has a Lenmovo notebook. He had the screen replaced under warranty due to the pixel things. Hasnt been 12 months and its still not right.

Something like this, right? http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3072/2955559998_93cd123fbc.jpg

Yeah, the liquid crystals are leaking out, and this is happening between the layers of "glass", that's why you can't feel the crack. You'll have to replace the screen to fix it. If it doesn't annoy you endlessly, just keep using it. It will probably get worse over time, though. Happened to one of my first digital cameras, too. Combination of a very hot day in Botswana plus a a drop of just centimetres. Starting out as a small crack, ending up with half the screen black. The repair would have cost more than a new camera...

What the previous poster said is 100% correct, and if you understand the principal of how the screen works you will see it is unrepairable.

All you can hope for now that it doesn't get worse, good luck.

Thanks all. I expect a "cracked" screen literally is what has happened. It is still under warranty and I am taking it to the repair depot on Monday. I strongly suspect they will say I've dropped it or something and not allow the repair/replace screen under warranty but we'll find out. Fortunately the repair depot is not far away so I can take it there instead of paying for shipping only to find out they won't repair it. Some benefits to living in a big town.

It's always a bit of a puzzle, what to buy. I bought this little Acer netbook for travel and it has been super for that. Kind of funny how these things can bounce around in a backpack for months without breaking then come home and break sitting on a table. Oh well.

But the conundrum for me if I have to replace it is that I am about to head off on 3 mos travel again and I don't want to pay more than a few hundred $ because of the theft factor. On the other hand, these little netbooks are limited in what they can do/speed/smoothness. I MISS my old Toshiba Protege. But that one cost me $2000 10 years ago! I still have it - works fine after all those years of travel - but none of the USB ports work and it is a heavy thing in comparison tot netbooks.