Flickery Glitchy Monitor
TychoCelchuuu
Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">Help Me Forums-Won Kenobi</div> So lately (a bit less than a week) my monitor has been sort of glitchy. It's hard to describe, but it's like a one-inch-high portion of it randomly moves about 5 pixels to the right and then back or something. This happens in the space of like a 10th of a second or something; it's a flicker. It usually moves from top to bottom or bottom to top, so it's like a flickery little wave that passes through my screen very quickly.
My first suspect is the video card overheating. It's a Radeon 9600. My ASUS PCProbe tells me that temperatures on both the CPU and Mobo are perfectly fine; I can't imagine why the video card would be hotter (it has a heatsink, not a fan, so there's nothing to malfunction).
This pretty much leaves me with the monitor itself, which is admittedly a rather likely suspect. It's more than 10 years old, probably verging on 15 or something. It's by a company that's not even around anymore and says "Low Radiation" on it which implies that back then certain monitors would give you cancer.
Basically what I want to know is this: first, has this happened to anyone? To describe it in simpler terms, parts of the screen flicker. If nobody has had this before (which is quite likely), can anyone diagnose it? I don't have a videocard handy to try out, and if I had another monitor I wouldn't be using this dinosaur.
Love,
Tycho "Tyku" Celchuuu
My first suspect is the video card overheating. It's a Radeon 9600. My ASUS PCProbe tells me that temperatures on both the CPU and Mobo are perfectly fine; I can't imagine why the video card would be hotter (it has a heatsink, not a fan, so there's nothing to malfunction).
This pretty much leaves me with the monitor itself, which is admittedly a rather likely suspect. It's more than 10 years old, probably verging on 15 or something. It's by a company that's not even around anymore and says "Low Radiation" on it which implies that back then certain monitors would give you cancer.
Basically what I want to know is this: first, has this happened to anyone? To describe it in simpler terms, parts of the screen flicker. If nobody has had this before (which is quite likely), can anyone diagnose it? I don't have a videocard handy to try out, and if I had another monitor I wouldn't be using this dinosaur.
Love,
Tycho "Tyku" Celchuuu
Comments
Does it by any chance make a high pitched noise, perhaps only at certain resolutions? It sounds like the power supply in the monitor is dying. Better budget for a new one.
I got a new cellphone a few months ago, and now whenever I get a call or it autoupdates the screens of my monitors flicker. Interesting to have a 5 second warning for a phone call though.
Does it by any chance make a high pitched noise, perhaps only at certain resolutions? It sounds like the power supply in the monitor is dying. Better budget for a new one. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
A high pitched noise would be <i>so cool.</i>
I turned off my computer for about an hour and a half then turned it back on; the flickers have yet to return. This doesn't solve diddly, though, because the monitor was spastic about this stuff before. It does raise the possibility of a spontaneously overheating/short lifespanned video card. I don't really care, as this is in fact a best case scenario really. If it's the video card's fault, I get to return it and apply its price to a new card (at the end of the month the next gen of graphics cards come out, so I can get an older one for pretty cheap then). If it's the monitor, well, heck. This thing is ooooooooolllllllllllllld.