CRT monitors can be a pain on the eyes, especially for those of us who spend lots of time in front of the computer. Much of this pain is caused by a flickering monitor. To increase the refresh rate of your CRT monitor and help prevent the monitor from noticeably flickering, one may do the following:
Right Click on the Desktop > select “Properties” > Click on the “Settings” Tab > Click on the “Advanced”button > Open up the “Monitor” Tab > Manually increase the “Screen Refresh Rate”, which is measured in Hertz.
However, if you don’t notice that your monitor is flickering, then there is no need to increase the refresh rate. Also, remember to take frequent breaks from constantly viewing the monitor and focus on various objects at different distances for a couple seconds – this is a great way to reduce sore eyes and pays off in the long run.
David Risley is the founder of PCMech.com. He is the brains, the thinker, the writer, the nerd.
Hi,
Just a few words on filcker that might help someone. Refresh rate is probably the #1 factor in flicker but there are a couple of others.
A second very important factor that might cause flicker is a cheap cable. When I replaced the cheap SVGA cable that came with my new $450 24″ Samsung (my laptop connection) with a decent Belkin SVGA cable the annoying 60 hrtz flicker magically went away.
Also some people have ‘faster eyes’ than others maybe depending on how may carrots they’ve been eating (just kidding). But after excercising one might notice that ficker is more annoying than normal. I think dogs don’t ‘tune in’ to what’s on TV because they they have faster eyes and probably just see annoying flickering.
Fred