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[lamia_prime]

ACK!! Geek help required!

Our monitor (as you presumably read earlier) was all fuzzy and weird, so hubby went out to buy a new one.

He plugged in the spanking new monitor, and realized that it is NOT the fault of the old monitor. He thinks it may be a wonky video card, ro that there is crud inside the tower.

A little guidance?

Anyone? Beuller?

Comments

[baronessmartha.livejournal.com]

If the cord is a separate piece, replace it first
it is wayyy cheaper.

[lamia-prime.livejournal.com]

Cords came with it.

[mrmanx.livejournal.com]

Cards can be pretty cheep and when you take it out you'll see if there's gunk or not. If you have or can get another computer to test the video card on, first try that.

Canned air two or three cans are a cheap fix.

[osgkar.livejournal.com]

blow out your whole machine then carefully blow off your video card then clean the contacts of the video card with an eraser.check for the most current version of your video cards software. You will likely need to update it even if it is new with the last six months. most moniters have fixed cords attached makeing sure the moniter is plugged in to the video card good and tight is a good trouble shooting step.let me know if any of this helps or give a call and i can walk you through stuff if you want.

geeking

[darthluna.livejournal.com]

can you try the moniter on a different pc? that'll let you know if it's the moniter.

Certainly open and clean the tower, clean all the connections, re-seat everything and plug it all back in.
It can't hurt, and every now and then it fixes stuff.

If you get a vidio card, make sure it's compatable with your processor, your available slot, your moniter and your OS.

I have heard

[hotfix.livejournal.com]

Of wacky power issues causing problems with monitors.

But - what refresh resolution rate do you have the video card set to? If you have it set to a high resolution, and are using a 15 pin VGA connection, it can get fuzzy as high resolution images pick up noise.

If you can set the resolution down to 1024x768 with say 75mhz and let us know how that goes.