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Title: Question for the geeks
Post by: nailbender on September 05, 2007, 07:30:31 AM
  My monitor is going dark. Color washing out from side to side, black screen shades the google window grey.
     Any ideas? Other than banging on it?  There it goes again, can't see what I'm typing. A couple good hits brings it back., not for long
Title: Re: Question for the geeks
Post by: Silencer on September 05, 2007, 08:05:38 AM
either your monitor or video card is going.  you got a spare monitor to try out ??  If its still doing it with another monitor I'd say its the vid card. 
Title: Re: Question for the geeks
Post by: Todd Rahm on September 05, 2007, 08:19:13 AM
99.9% sure its the monitor, and its not fixable...........you'll need a new one.
Title: Re: Question for the geeks
Post by: DirtyDog on September 05, 2007, 08:31:05 AM
Quote from: Todd Rahm on September 05, 2007, 08:19:13 AM
99.9% sure its the monitor, and its not fixable...........you'll need a new one.

I should have known you would answer this one Todd......where's Jimbo?  :innocentwhistle:

I agree though, it sounds like the monitor is going bad.
Title: Re: Question for the geeks
Post by: awh on September 05, 2007, 08:55:25 AM
Yeap. Try another monitor and if it clears it up.....drop the bucks for a new one.
Title: Re: Question for the geeks
Post by: nailbender on September 05, 2007, 10:13:22 AM
  Thank guys, that's what I thought. Just got rid of the extra monitor I had laying around. Isn't that the way it goes? :doh2:
Title: Re: Question for the geeks
Post by: FinsnFur on September 05, 2007, 05:52:48 PM
Yep, it's the monitor for sure. The tube is burning out. Banging on it might gain ya another week or so but she's short lived.

If you don't want a high tech big flat screen monitor, you can pick up the kind that look like a little TV for dirt. I just bought a brand new 17" for 60 bucks.