hey steele!

Vic Mackey · Post by **Vic Mackey** » Sat Apr 05, 2003 9:37 pm

hiya

well i have a question. my monitor is starting to spasm! it flickers sometimes and once it even made sounds at me! is my monitor dying? is my refresh rate too high? i used refresh force and it autodetected 120Hz as maximum i could go.

mnosteele52 · Post by **mnosteele52** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 10:43 am

Sounds like you may have fried it

, I would never suggest forcing a refresh rate, monitors are designed for a certain refresh rate and no higher. 85hertz is more than adequate for anyone and any monitor, try lowering it to what the monitor supports and see if the problem goes away.

Cypher · Post by **Cypher** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 12:10 pm

I run mine at 85 too. By forcing a higher rate not only do you open yourself up to hardware failure but it will also degrade your preformance.

Sorry you broke your monitor Vic.

JeffL · Post by **JeffL** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 2:55 pm

Uhm, I disagree.

The refresh rate of your monitor really has little to do with how your desktop will perform. Thats like saying we should all set our monitors to 16 colors instead of 16 million because it is slower.

It COULD be the monitor is failing, but it also sounds like a ground issue in the wiring. The flickering could be due to sparking in the arc gap as the CRT discharges.

The whining you hear is likely the flyback transformer vibrating at a high enough rate to make a noise. It could also be a bad capacitor on the analog board that is going bad (and is easily replacable). If your good at soldering and working around high voltage devices, you could repair the capacitor and repair any solder connections and even reseat the flyback transformer and that should solve it.

OTOH, working on CRTs is dangeous as they pack ExTrEmE voltages, and can kill you if you manage to discharge the CRT through yourself.

Cypher · Post by **Cypher** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 3:46 pm

Those settings do have a certain impact. So does 16/32 bit. Check the benchmarks for yourself. Good advice on the soldering deal so long as he's profecient at it. Let me add to that, that you should be sure to leave it unpluged for around 45 minutes before doing so just to be safe. Caps have a tendency for holding their charge. I would just simply pick a new monitor up and be done with it.

Loonatic · Post by **Loonatic** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 4:27 pm

32bit is slower than 16bit.

Higher resolutions are slower in games.

The higher refresh rate, the slower games can look when a slight FPS drop occurs. This is because the FPS dropped below the refresh rate.

Cypher · Post by **Cypher** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 4:57 pm

JeffL · Post by **JeffL** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 5:57 pm

If you're talking about refresh rates in gaming, then sure. And color depth. But for 2d work it wouldn't make much of a difference...

Vic Mackey · Post by **Vic Mackey** » Mon Apr 07, 2003 7:52 am

thanks for the replies! hmm, i pushed the cord in that goes to the back of the monitor. it didnt move any but when i pushed it stopped flickering...

Cypher · Post by **Cypher** » Mon Apr 07, 2003 7:18 pm

It sounds like a short or what Jeffl was saying.