Video flicker

2013-01-19 Thread JohnV
G5 Dual 1.8G 10.4.11 GeForce FX 5200 2 monitors Westinghouse CMC17 1280x1024 DELL E207WFP 1680x1050 These 2 monitors played-nice for months, then the CMC-17 suddenly developed a flickering series of maybe 10 horizontal bands that slowly move down the screen. They are not apparent at all

Re: Video flicker

2013-01-19 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 19, 2013, at 12:02 PM, JohnV wrote: Where should I be looking for if it's the machine, the card, a cable or the monitor? Switch the monitors to each other's video port and see if the bands stay with the same monitor or stay with the same video port. -- You received this message

Re: Video flicker

2013-01-19 Thread Valter Prahlad
Il giorno 19/01/13 20:34, Kris Tilford ha scritto: Switch the monitors to each other's video port and see if the bands stay with the same monitor or stay with the same video port. ... and switch the video cables too, to test them as well. -- You received this message because you are a

Re: Video flicker

2013-01-19 Thread JohnV
flicker stays with the Westinghouse monitor On Jan 19, 2013, at 2:34 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Jan 19, 2013, at 12:02 PM, JohnV wrote: Where should I be looking for if it's the machine, the card, a cable or the monitor? Switch the monitors to each other's video port and see if the bands

Re: Video flicker

2013-01-19 Thread JohnV
OK, this will take some wrangling... a day or two to get at it. Swap the port connections at the back of the G5 observe, then Swap the cables where they go into each monitor observe will do On Jan 19, 2013, at 2:56 PM, Valter Prahlad wrote: Il giorno 19/01/13 20:34, Kris

Re: Video flicker

2013-01-19 Thread W.Adrian D'Alessio
A Viewsonic here has problems with an external power supply. It works well when a replacement is plugged in. On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 5:14 PM, W.Adrian D'Alessio fluxstrin...@gmail.comwrote: If you have no toher cables to try get rubbing alcohol or contact cleaner, an old tooth brush with

Twitter on a G4 or a G5

2013-01-19 Thread smac0031
It unfortunately has come to this. It looks like I need to join Twitter. I have a DA G4 with 10.411 or a G5 10.5 whatever. What do i need to run Twitter by spending the least amount of money possible. Thanks, Mark Murphy -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group

Re: Video flicker

2013-01-19 Thread Doug McNutt
At 17:16 -0500 1/19/13, W.Adrian D'Alessio wrote: A Viewsonic here has problems with an external power supply. It works well when a replacement is plugged in. In the good old days of cathode ray tubes rolling bands were almost always due to an interference. the AC power's 60 Hz, with

Re: Twitter on a G4 or a G5

2013-01-19 Thread John Laughlin
Firefox 3.6.28 works fine... On Jan 19, 2013, at 15:11, smac0031 m.smurph...@gmail.com wrote: It unfortunately has come to this. It looks like I need to join Twitter. I have a DA G4 with 10.411 or a G5 10.5 whatever. What do i need to run Twitter by spending the least amount of money

Re: Video flicker

2013-01-19 Thread Rock
On 1/19/2013 1:02 PM, JohnV wrote: These 2 monitors played-nice for months, then the CMC-17 suddenly developed a flickering series of maybe 10 horizontal bands that slowly move down the screen. This is indicative of filter capacitors going bad in the power supply. -- You received this