On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 11:00:37PM -0400, Lance A. Brown wrote: > Yesterday I came home from work, sat down at my computer, and bumped my > mouse to clear the screensaver. When the normal image came up I noticed > it was continuously wiggling horizontally. I hit the degauss function > on the monitor but it didn't help. Since then I've checked everything, > including reseating the video card in the computer and reseating the > video cable. No new electromagnetic sources have come into my office > space, either. > > The monitor is a Samsung 19" that is bout 2.5 years old. The video card > is a GForce2MX400 bought shortly after the monitor. > > I've done all I know how to do. Can anyone offer advice? I'm concerned > that I'm loosing either the card or the monitor. > > --[Lance]
Sounds like the horizontal drive capacitors are getting ready to fail. They are relatively easy to fix and are often the first to go. -- Gregory G. "Wolfe" Woodbury `-_-' Owner/Admin: wolves.durham.nc.us ggw at wolves.durham.nc.us U RHCT August 2003 "The Line Eater is a boojum snark." Hug your wolf. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
