Monitor weird activity

[Caius]

Hello everyone,

I guess my oldie monitor is going to die.
R.I.P.
My monitor
I'm kidding. But my monitor is going to die, sooner or later, but how do I to know that?'cause its having some strange activity with the monitor.

Thank you

Garci

[Bootsiuv]

A little more information might be helpful...I assume it's a CRT if it's older. Those have a tendency to just take a poop after a few years.

I'm not sure you can really tell exactly when it's going to happen, but I do know that discoloration in the corners and vertical/horizontal lines across the screen are sure signs that it's on the way out.

I've heard things like cell phones can screw monitors up....I'm not 100% sure if it's true, but you may want to keep yours away from it just until someone says I'm crazy.

[Ramses II CP]

If it starts to smoke, it's probably done. Sometimes you can fix your own monitor... but you need to have a pretty good idea what you're doing first, and you have to let it sit a few days to bleed off the charge, and even then there are risks if you haven't shorted it. With monitors fairly cheap, it's probably not worth it.

I lost an old CRT not too long ago, and the first sign was the image narrowed in the horizontal band. As I was reaching for the button to flip it off *POP* and smoke. Pulled the plug. Paraphrasing what a venerable mechanic once said; they only put so much smoke in them when they're made, once you let it out they're garbage.

Unless you're sensitive to not-black blacks, go LCD.

[Caius]

It seems I was touching the cable.

vertical/horizontal lines across the screen are sure signs that it's on the way out.

Gah! I have those.

[Csargo]

My monitor was flickering for a while, it turned out that it wasn't connected well, but that doesn't seem to be the case here.

[Caius]

Then, recommend me of good monitors, cheaper but of good quality if possible,

thanks.