Serious Monitor (crt) Question

DOOManiac

<div class="IPBDescription">need much help please :( :(</div>Okay, well as some of you know my old 19" has all but died and so I spent the weekend on a monitor hunt. After returning 2 LCD's which did not perform as promised (lots of image ghosting), I got a CRT. However, the monitor is already displaying some of the same signs my old monitor did as it started to go down the path of dying...

Basically, whenever the screen contents changes from light color to dark color, the size of the screen physically MOVES. It gets larger for a half secnod then goes back to its normal size. Now, it does this *EVERY* time there's a color change. When watching video its usually hard to notice and is gradual, but if you minimize/maximize stuff, it was painfully obvious and starts to cause a head ache very fast when you alt+tab as much as I do. The old one started doing this uncontrollably, and already this new one is starting to go down a similar path...

Is this something completely normal that I've just somehow never noticed until now? Or is there some other culprit perhaps, maybe a monitor-ruining goblin out to get me...

God life sucks... :X

CommunistWithAGun

Maybe its electrical noise, got anything that might effect electromagnetism near your monitor?

uranium_235

^ ^ ^

I was wondering why our TV was acting funny, then I found out the speakers we just put near it were gaussing the crap out of the screen.

DOOManiac

Well I do have 2 speakers down below, but I've had them for upwards to 5+ years.. And last night I thought about this problem and unplugged them and my printer, but no go, the monitor still does it when only it and the PC are plugged in... :(

TenSix

It could be its getting too much/little voltage or something of the sort. Couldnt hurt to try plugging it into another socket. Or maybe theres something around it making it go wonky.

Scythe

When your screen size changes from sudden colour changes that's called poor "clamping". You can buy test DVDs for new TVs that show a picture alternating between a white box on a black background and a black box on a white background.

It's usually a sign of a poorly made monitor. I've got a BENQ-g774 and it's been working like a dream.

--Scythe--

AllUrHiveRblong2us

Have you tried ghostbusters? Maybe the monitor is full of ectoplasm!

Marik_Steele

If you buy your monitor from a place with internet access on the computers showcasing the monitors, request access to be able to use <a href='http://www.monitorsdirect.com/toolkit/' target='_blank'>the monitor calibration/test page located here.</a> The problem you described is included in one of the tests, and it's free (not downloadable as a program, unfortunately, but free)