monitor going bad??

Well, I finally stumbled across what seems to have fixed it. After trying
to fiddle with every adjustment on the monitor's front panel menu buttons, I
finally looked at the last menu choice, which included color temperature and
something called "color return". Just out of curiosity, having tried
adjusting brightness, contrast, and about every other choice available, I
tried "color return", not having the faintest idea what that is. Well, the
screen went dark for a few seconds while I thought "oh s**t, what have I
done now?". Then it popped back on, and the faint little diagonal lines
were gone (at least for now). Not sure what that might have changed, but it
seems to be fixed. Hopes this helps another poor soul with the same
problem.

babygrand

"Bob Myers" <nospamplease DeleteThis @address.invalid> wrote in message
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> "babygrand" <NOSPAMjoe DeleteThis @airoflo.com> wrote in message
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> > I have a 20" Dell CRT that is about 3 years old, has been a great high
end
> > display until recently. I am running a Radeon 9600 AGP card in a Dell
> > Dimension 8200, 2 Ghz Pentium 4, 1 Gb RAM, everything has been great
until
> > about 3 months ago, I noticed faint diagonal lines running from upper
> right
> > down to lower left, about 2" apart. I have tried changing refresh
rates,
> > screen resolutions, everything, and nothing seems to make it go away.
> These
> > lines even appear when the machine is first booted up, when the very
first
> > images appear, before any kind of video drivers are loaded.
>
> Have you tried adjusting the "brightness" control? If turning down
> the brightness doesn't eliminate these (what you are seeing are the
> horizontal scans which occur during the vertical retrace period), then
> there IS a problem in the monitor in that it is not blanking these
> lines.
>
> Bob M.
>
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