calamospiza
03-23-2002, 02:57 PM
I think that my monitor is slowly dying on me.
I have a six year old Dell VS15X Color Monitor that seems to be going downhill now. As soon I turn the computer/monitor on it starts clicking and often continues clicking for a minute or so sometimes longer, sometimes less. And yet other times a few normal clicks will occur.
This problem started about the beginning of this year. Before this behavior started it was normal for this monitor to issue a couple clicks before it “warmed-up”. Up until this behavior started this monitor never exhibited any problems and performed well.
When it clicks a lot, the screen or desktop image is distorted at first – the desktop image of the whole screen is pushed up so as to cut off the top of the screen. The bottom of the screen “window” is pushed up a good inch or two. The task bar and bottom of the screen is so vertically compressed as to be barely recognizable while at the top of the screen the icons, letters, images are very vertically elongated. The center of the screen is about normal size. My MS Office toolbar, icons at the of desktop, title bar on open windows disappears or rather is pushed up off the screen. Also the bottom of screen, the task bar, is horizontally narrowed or “squashed”. After a few minutes the screen or desktop image returns to normal so that nothing is distorted and hidden.
A related problem is that if I let the computer/monitor go to sleep after a period of inactivity and then reawaken it, such as by moving the mouse, this screen image becomes temporarily distorted again. Then once again, after a few minutes, the images on the desktop return to normal. Its not often that the monitor starts-up normally, with just a few clicks, but when it does the screen is not distorted.
The Control Parameters or adjustments have no effect on correcting this problem. At first I thought that maybe this was a software problem particular to that computer but I tested this monitor on a second computer and the same problem resulted again. My question is if this monitor is about to die and should I simply replace it with a new monitor. If this problem is correctable through a repair tech is it worth it?
monitor dying
I have a six year old Dell VS15X Color Monitor that seems to be going downhill now. As soon I turn the computer/monitor on it starts clicking and often continues clicking for a minute or so sometimes longer, sometimes less. And yet other times a few normal clicks will occur.
This problem started about the beginning of this year. Before this behavior started it was normal for this monitor to issue a couple clicks before it “warmed-up”. Up until this behavior started this monitor never exhibited any problems and performed well.
When it clicks a lot, the screen or desktop image is distorted at first – the desktop image of the whole screen is pushed up so as to cut off the top of the screen. The bottom of the screen “window” is pushed up a good inch or two. The task bar and bottom of the screen is so vertically compressed as to be barely recognizable while at the top of the screen the icons, letters, images are very vertically elongated. The center of the screen is about normal size. My MS Office toolbar, icons at the of desktop, title bar on open windows disappears or rather is pushed up off the screen. Also the bottom of screen, the task bar, is horizontally narrowed or “squashed”. After a few minutes the screen or desktop image returns to normal so that nothing is distorted and hidden.
A related problem is that if I let the computer/monitor go to sleep after a period of inactivity and then reawaken it, such as by moving the mouse, this screen image becomes temporarily distorted again. Then once again, after a few minutes, the images on the desktop return to normal. Its not often that the monitor starts-up normally, with just a few clicks, but when it does the screen is not distorted.
The Control Parameters or adjustments have no effect on correcting this problem. At first I thought that maybe this was a software problem particular to that computer but I tested this monitor on a second computer and the same problem resulted again. My question is if this monitor is about to die and should I simply replace it with a new monitor. If this problem is correctable through a repair tech is it worth it?
monitor dying