Ok a few secs ago my monito was working fine except for the fact that the color seemms light that usual (im using an acer lcd monitor btw) to i pressed the menu button on the monitor and went to reset thinking it would put the monitor settings back to defualt after the monitor did whatever it does swhen yuo click reset.. the monitor nows has transparent thick lines rolling for the bottom of the monitor to the top.. is theer anyway to fix that or have ai just killed my monitor? (hard to believe using the monitors reset option would kill it lol)

A lot of your monitor settings are in your Video propeties settings-- or your video-card software-- I am afraid I still use a CRT-- so I'm not sure if LCD's need "degaussing" which is demagetization ...

Need monitor make model number to look it up...

the model number Is AL171
the sku number is AL1717 Asm
and its an acer monitor

hmm i just tried turned the brightness setting all teh way up on my monitor and not the lines are completely gone but niow everything has this wierd metallic gray look to it (which im guessing is from all the brightness) however if i turn teh brightness even down 1 click from 100 the lines are visible again and teh furth down i turn it the more obvious the lines get)

I'll be back to check this out in a few...

OK-- here's a link to Acer's support site-- user guide.
http://www.acerpanam.com/synapse/dat...nts/al1717.pdf

I would suggest you check your video resolution settings first-- LCD's are quite picky about these...so if hitting reset might have set it too low-- or to a non-supported resolution.

When did you buy it ??? They have a 3-year warranty you know-- which means you can contact their techsupport-- not meaning I don't want to help you-- far from it... but they may be able to give you a quick fix.