Re: In case I go silent . . .
On Feb 4, 2008, at 11:02 AM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: at first I thought that it was coming from outside, maybe the neighbor breaking up some limbs for disposal. Good lord, you live next to a mafia hit man? I've had the same kinds of symptoms, prior to switching to LCD land at home. (Still use CRTs at work for the higher quality images.) You'll need to replace your display, probably -- my experience is that voltage shorts aren't in the practice of healing themselves. -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http://www.nightwares.com/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
In case I go silent . . .
When I woke up the computer this morning, the monitor made a number of popping sounds somewhat similar in sharpness and volume to the sound a cap pistol makes. (I had hit a key in passing and gone into another room before the noise started, and at first I thought that it was coming from outside, maybe the neighbor breaking up some limbs for disposal.) When I watched the screen I noticed that every time the sound occurred, the image dimmed and shrank like the picture on an old TV when you turned it off. Eventually after I turned off the monitor for a few minutes and turned it back on it seemed to work properly, and it has been doing so for the better part of a couple of hours now. I'm guessing that the problem may have been that it was so warm yesterday afternoon and last night that I left a couple of windows open and this morning the humidity is very high I later found some places on the wall which felt cool and damp to the touch so I'm hoping that the problem is related to that, but I thought I'd let some folks know in case it turns out to be something more serious, because if the monitor fails completely now I don't know when I'll be able to replace it . . . -- Ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: In case I go silent . . .
Ronn! Blankenship wrote: When I woke up the computer this morning, the monitor made a number of popping sounds somewhat similar in sharpness and volume to the sound a cap pistol makes. ... up some limbs for disposal.) When I watched the screen I noticed that every time the sound occurred, the image dimmed and shrank like the picture on an old TV when you turned it off. ... Ronn-- Oh, yes, I've had that. I presume that something inside the (CRT, right?) monitor was sometimes shorting out. In my case, the monitor lasted a few months more, then died. You know, I haven't actually bought a monitor in several years. I've been taking the ones that other people give away when they upgrade to flat panels. My source for this is Freecycle: http://www.freecycle.org/search ---David Pop goes the ... ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
