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Old January 9th 05, 01:38 PM
keith
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Default Monitor failing or something else?

Display will ocassionaly and quickly dim and/or shrink and bounce
back. Haven't seen it while here in OE, once in a while in Hotmail, more
often when just playing Freecell on top of desktop. Don't think I've seen it
while browsing with IE 6 (MSNBC homepage). Most likely a monitor problem?
Video card or computer? Stop playing Freecell? Don't have but am looking for
another monitor to borrow to investigate. Any most likely suspects?
Thanks. Keith


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Old January 9th 05, 05:23 PM
keith
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A new twist. Computer was idling and monitor went to its usual no
screen-saver black screen but would not wake up when I moved the mouse.
Tried monitor on/off/on. Still blank. Rebooted and monitor (and mouse) seems
normal.
"keith" wrote in message
...
Display will ocassionaly and quickly dim and/or shrink and bounce
back. Haven't seen it while here in OE, once in a while in Hotmail, more
often when just playing Freecell on top of desktop. Don't think I've seen

it
while browsing with IE 6 (MSNBC homepage). Most likely a monitor problem?
Video card or computer? Stop playing Freecell? Don't have but am looking

for
another monitor to borrow to investigate. Any most likely suspects?
Thanks. Keith




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Old January 9th 05, 10:56 PM
Jeff Richards
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I would rank monitor problem as most likely, closely followed by a cabling
problem, with video card somewhat further behind and software not even worth
considering.
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Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"keith" wrote in message
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Display will ocassionaly and quickly dim and/or shrink and bounce
back. Haven't seen it while here in OE, once in a while in Hotmail, more
often when just playing Freecell on top of desktop. Don't think I've seen
it
while browsing with IE 6 (MSNBC homepage). Most likely a monitor problem?
Video card or computer? Stop playing Freecell? Don't have but am looking
for
another monitor to borrow to investigate. Any most likely suspects?
Thanks. Keith




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Old January 10th 05, 07:42 PM
keith
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Got a hold of a small spare HP monitor. No sign of problem YET. But
still wonder - why would freecell be so much more of a problem? Is it such a
complicated hog? Or are all games a challange for less than high speed high
powered machines? Don't do any high speed high excitement video gaming here
on a Dell Optiplex GX1p, Pent II, 400 mhz, with lots of free space on a
7.5(?) G HD.
"Jeff Richards" wrote in message
...
I would rank monitor problem as most likely, closely followed by a cabling
problem, with video card somewhat further behind and software not even

worth
considering.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"keith" wrote in message
...
Display will ocassionaly and quickly dim and/or shrink and bounce
back. Haven't seen it while here in OE, once in a while in Hotmail, more
often when just playing Freecell on top of desktop. Don't think I've

seen
it
while browsing with IE 6 (MSNBC homepage). Most likely a monitor

problem?
Video card or computer? Stop playing Freecell? Don't have but am looking
for
another monitor to borrow to investigate. Any most likely suspects?
Thanks. Keith






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Old January 13th 05, 05:13 AM
techten
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Try the original mon. on another computer. My guess is that you'll see a
similar problem on that PC. The games you are playing are not likely to be
the problem.

"keith" wrote:

Got a hold of a small spare HP monitor. No sign of problem YET. But
still wonder - why would freecell be so much more of a problem? Is it such a
complicated hog? Or are all games a challange for less than high speed high
powered machines? Don't do any high speed high excitement video gaming here
on a Dell Optiplex GX1p, Pent II, 400 mhz, with lots of free space on a
7.5(?) G HD.
"Jeff Richards" wrote in message
...
I would rank monitor problem as most likely, closely followed by a cabling
problem, with video card somewhat further behind and software not even

worth
considering.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"keith" wrote in message
...
Display will ocassionaly and quickly dim and/or shrink and bounce
back. Haven't seen it while here in OE, once in a while in Hotmail, more
often when just playing Freecell on top of desktop. Don't think I've

seen
it
while browsing with IE 6 (MSNBC homepage). Most likely a monitor

problem?
Video card or computer? Stop playing Freecell? Don't have but am looking
for
another monitor to borrow to investigate. Any most likely suspects?
Thanks. Keith







 




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