help!! aliasing problem on my monitor...

[spp]

Hey all:

I am suspecting that my monitor is failing. Here is the reason:

I had a voodoo3500 tv card before. I tried different refresh rate for the monitor, and the higher one causes some parts of the screen to flicker more than others, while the lower refresh rate will render just fine.

Now I have a gainward 4400, the flickering becomes even more prominent. It even flickers at the dos fonts (in the beginning while booting up, like the screen where it's scanning ram and detecting drives). I see lines scanning from bottom to top as if it's an aliasing problem, and it's worse when i have my resolution all the way down. Now if I have my refresh rate higher, the whole screen will just jiggle and flicker.....

Does this sound like a monitor problem for you guys? or is it possible that my mobo/video card is causing this? (I have already sent my monitor back to viewsonic for a fix.... and it's still doing this right now.... but before I also had this fading in/out problem which is less prominent now).

Thanks in advance!!

 

[spp]

i'm giving it a bump hoping that i can get any sorts of help...

 

[sxr7171]

This may or may not be your problem, but the one time that happened to me was when I had a florescent light turned on near my monitor. Turning the light off fixed it. So maybe there's a new source of EMF around. Then again, your problem does sound different since you sent it back to Viewsonic once.

 

[spp]

yea it's the same whether i have the light on or off....

 

[AnAndAustin]

: Speakers, magnets and even other monitors or TV sets can also cause that type of problem. Take all unneccesary items away from your monitor. Then re-attatch the d-Sub that plugs in to your gfx card, inspect it first to ensure pins aren't damaged or bent. It is normal for some pins to be missing. If you wiggle the connection and wire itself when screwed in and the image flickers then it could just be the cable.

A monitor should last 5 years or so, if it's quite old (3+) then it most probably is nearing the end of its life.

With new 17" and 19" monitors at an all time low, I'd suggest upgrading it. If this cost worries you then try your monitor in a friend's PC to see if the problems still occur before you buy a new monitor. It isn't worth the cost of repairing older monitors.

 

[spp]

well my monitor is a 19" viewsonic... and i did try to send it to them for repair. (they didn't charge me because it's still under warranty).

i cannot swap the cable since it's built into the monitor itself.... and i don't think that there are many other things around the monitor.

I will try my roomate's monitor and see .... and i'll update once i did that