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The monitor screen may be smudged with finger prints (usually from little kids with sticky fingers pointing at everything they see).Try cleaning it.
You may have magnetic interference due to speakers being too close to the monitor or someone held a magnet to the screen and moved it about because they thought it looked cool. Try pressing the degausse button a few times or turn it off, unplug the power and let it sit for a while.
Your monitor may be failing. Test it by using a borrowed monitor from a friend.
The monitor screen may be smudged with finger prints (usually from little kids with sticky fingers pointing at everything they see).Try cleaning it.
You may have magnetic interference due to speakers being too close to the monitor or someone held a magnet to the screen and moved it about because they thought it looked cool. Try pressing the degausse button a few times or turn it off, unplug the power and let it sit for a while.
Your monitor may be failing. Test it by using a borrowed monitor from a friend.
Mainegeek pretty much has it all, only thing i am gonna add is that you can try adjusting all the other adjustments after you degausse first. Of course, you will find adjustment buttons for a ton of settings, adjust them all to your liking after degaussing and then degauss again when you have adjusted all the settings.
If that doesnt clear things up then we have to look at the video card drivers, video card, and monitor as probable sources of the problem, not always in that order.
After that it would be a longshot, windows os error? (doubt it), power supply (dont think so), motherboard - possibly, just not likely.
Interference? For sure, move all cell phones, speakers, anything magnetic out of range, that goes for wireless telephones too!
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If that doesnt clear things up then we have to look at the video card drivers, video card, and monitor as probable sources of the problem, not always in that order.
After that it would be a longshot, windows os error? (doubt it), power supply (dont think so), motherboard - possibly, just not likely.
Interference? For sure, move all cell phones, speakers, anything magnetic out of range, that goes for wireless telephones too!
Good advice + great people = tek-tips
dennishixson
MIS
could also be a bad monitor cable. I had that problem a couple weeks ago
RICHINMINN
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- Dec 31, 2001
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The first thing to try is to degauss the CRT, as mentioned in earlier posts.
I've seen a couple of instances where the yoke that surrounds the CRT inside the case has come loose and fouled up the screen image. In one case I was able to reposition it by trial and error and then reglue it in place, but in the others (older units) I told their owners to scrap them and get something new. (Be VERY cautious when running a monitor with the case off! There are some voltages and amperages in there that can do you some serious damage!)
Rich (in Minn.)
I've seen a couple of instances where the yoke that surrounds the CRT inside the case has come loose and fouled up the screen image. In one case I was able to reposition it by trial and error and then reglue it in place, but in the others (older units) I told their owners to scrap them and get something new. (Be VERY cautious when running a monitor with the case off! There are some voltages and amperages in there that can do you some serious damage!)
Rich (in Minn.)
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