My Monitors Picture collapsed!

[overst33r]

Hey guys i figured i would ask you guys maybe you have some past experiences you can draw from. Lately (Past 2 days) my Monitors picture collapses and then goes back to normal. i dont know what the reason could be although i have a hunch that it is the new video card i installed a couple of weeks ago and i also experimented OCing on the little fella, not major just about 40 MHZ on core and like 20MHz on Memory. But i put it back to normal after i saw how big the gain was.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Is it accompanied by a loud "pop" or "snap" noise?

Sounds like your monitor's on the out. I suggest you start saving for a replacement before your current one lets the Magic Blue Smoke out!

- M4H

 

[overst33r]

Sorry umm whats the Magic Blue, ohh and its not accompanied by the noise.

 

[uOpt]

If it vertically collapses towards the middle it is the magnetic coils in a CRT giving up.

Sorry, that one is probably done for, although I know some who used monitors for years after it started.

Definitively not the video card, they don't collapse pictures towards the middle.

 

[overst33r]

The monitor is almost 6 years old, served me good

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: mariok2006
Sorry umm whats the Magic Blue, ohh and its not accompanied by the noise.

It's a joke. All computer parts are powered by Magic Blue Smoke, and if it escapes the components, they stop working. Get it?

- M4H

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Is it accompanied by a loud "pop" or "snap" noise?

Sounds like your monitor's on the out. I suggest you start saving for a replacement before your current one lets the Magic Blue Smoke out!
- M4H

Same thing happened to my secondary 15" display a few weeks back. Loud snaps, followed by the picture shrinking in. Then a series of snaps, and now it won't power-on at all. Some sort of failsafe lockout. I guess the HV xformer went or something shorted.

My 19" MAG died after a couple of years of otherwise decent service the same way. At least the 15" Compaq cost me all of $30, the 19" MAG was $500.

This $15 used NEC 17" is still doing pretty-well though, although I've considered sandpapering it.

I should go track down a used 19" or 20" Hitachi SuperScan for cheap, those things used to be tanks. This NEC has a bad solder joint somewhere, and it "whines" from time to time.