Thanks for the response. I'm doing just that right now. Whatever
causes it takes a couple of weeks so this will be a *very* slow
troubleshooting session. Strange ....

On Feb 25, 7:36 am, Mohammad AbuShady <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well i always knew that magnetic fields (from huge speakers or subwoofers)
> next to CRT screens make the colors do some funny things, but i am not sure
> it effects LCD, but i can't think of something that would do such a thing to
> an LCD screen.. maybe try moving the pc case it self a lil far or something.
> Next time u get this smearing move the screen without turning it off, you
> might find out what direction makes it go worse and figure out what is doing
> this.
>
> ~Coalwater~
>
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:03 PM, P Ratcliff <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> > Hello All,
>
> > I am having the weirdest monitor problem. I have a Gateway 24inch HD
> > LCD which started smearing to the right. By smearing, I mean that text
> > and images would have a ghosting effect on the right of the text or
> > image that gradually faded out as it moved away from the text or
> > image.
>
> > This got worse and worse to the point where, as a graphics person, it
> > became unusable. I replaced it with a Dell of the same size.
> > Everything looked just fine ... for a few weeks. Then, this monitor
> > began to do the exact same thing.
>
> > In an effort to troubleshoot this problem, I replaced the Dell with
> > the *original* Gateway, which had magically fixed itself during the
> > several weeks it sat on the shelf. I put the Dell on a different PC
> > which sits near to my main machine. Over the next few weeks the Dell
> > cleared up and the Gateway started having problems with smearing
> > again.
>
> > I have to think something *near* the place where I put my monitor is
> > causing this. Does anyone have any ideas? The only three things on the
> > right of the monitor are the PC itself, a smallish Altech PC speaker
> > and a WACOM pad.
>
> > Thanks in advance ...
> > P Ratcliff
>
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