monitor only displays half of screen...fried???

[vexingv]

i have a 17'' Proview (CRT) monitor that is about 3 yrs old. in the past few days, the monitor flashed and displayed only the bottom half of the screen. there is a bright banded line running through the middle of the screen and nothing else above it (all black). but within a few minutes it would flicker and show the entire screen again. today, however, i turned on my monitor and it only displayed the bottom half of the screen. tried on another computer and no success either. seems weird since i thought monitors last for awhile. does anyone know what happened to my monitor and if it can be fixed

 

[Viper96720]

A monitor repair shop should be able to fix it. Somethings wrong with the vertical circuitry. It controls the height of the picture.

 

[Killrose]

My monitor went berserk on me too. It started to jump into a windowed screen mode, like it was not filling the entire screen. I rapped on it a couple times and it would be fine for awhile, then it stayed that way.

I took it to work because i figured it was a mechanical problem, i.e. bad solder joint. Ended up finding it by taping around different areas of the pcb with an insulated tool till I located it and repaired it. I guess if you can hit it and it jumps back to normal, you might have a bad solder joint.

Usually it's the larger components on the pcb that seem to be a problem because of their weight and the fact that they tend to need more power in those areas, which heats up more and causes a solder failure. Be damn carefull if you are going to attempt this!!

 

[vexingv]

i'll prolly take this to the repair shop...or pick up a used one

my brother just suggested this: could the damage have been caused by magnetic fields???
i have my Altec Lansing avs500 woofer sitting on a shelf 4 inches above the monitor and i have two satellites on either side of it...i've seen magnets distort the beam of electrons maybe it could do something like this too after a long time