Message-ID: <41B7BF14.4030508@ix.netcom.com> Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 18:57:24 -0800 From: Alan Zabaro To: tenchi@usagi.org References: <20041207215827.6AC72C611D@ws7-5.us4.outblaze.com> <000f01c4dcf5$8b33e9f0$6400a8c0@tyrellams3gjf2> In-Reply-To: <000f01c4dcf5$8b33e9f0$6400a8c0@tyrellams3gjf2> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Subject: [tenchi:105659] Re: (OT) Monitor Question Reply-To: tenchi@gold.win.jp ML-Count: 105659 Precedence: bulk Bear Powell wrote: >>From: "Joseph Riggs" >>Or the new monitor might be "used" to the settings that your friend used >>it with, and the different inputs that its getting from your video card >>mightbe messing things up. I hope that made sense. > > > That kinda does make sense, but I have no idea how > you would remedy such a situation if it did actually > exist. My father had a computer that killed a pair of LCD monitors, one after another. Each of them had been fine until they were hooked to his computer, and each of them took a while to go downhill. Once they had, there was really no bringing them back (hooking them back up to another computer didn't make things any worse, but they were just as broken). How did he fix his computer? Well, we were guessing that the video card was sending something to the LCDs that they couldn't handle (too much current, or weird settings or something). So naturally we left the video card alone and reinstalled Windows. Or rather, replaced Windows ME with XP. That seems to have kept his computer from making things any worse, and the new monitor he got for the computer hasn't had any problems in the time it's been attached (much longer than it took to break the previous monitors). I don't know how helpful this is, but there you go. Alan Zabaro