Re: OT: A LCD monitor query for the hardware gurus on the NG.


"Zaghadka" <zaghadka@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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There is NO way a video-display device should be able to effect the
performance of a computer system... is there?

No. There isn't. (AFAIK, I'm good, but I'm no "guru")

I'm a fair tech - to the extent that on this particular computer I've
replaced pretty much everything except for the motherboard and chip set.
And I've been shopping motherboards lately thinking that maybe it's time to
put a new Mobo and chip in da box...


It sounds like a bad video card.

Possibly true - but I'd expect it to fail more completely 'sometime' in the
last three years if that was the case. The only problem I every had was
over-heating when I first got it - but putting a couple new fans in the box
solved that problem. And except for issues with Oblivion - and EVERYONE has
had problems with Oblivion's graphics - the card has been rock-solid.


Just about the only thing your PnP monitor did, other than output and
degauss,
was to send its EDID information to the vid card, via pin 12:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_display_identification_data

(see sections on "limitations" and _especially_ "disabling")

Which identifies sync timings automagically for your computer. If you were
getting a picture, then that was probably fine. If Windows said some
standard
resolutions (like 1024x768) were *unavailable*, then your EDID (or monitor
profile) was bad.

Nope - there weren't any 'unavailable' resolutions then or now.


EDID errors usually wind up with a case of a working computer with a) no
picture, b) safe mode resolution and normal resolutions listed as
unavailable,
or c) bad, illegible picture and a nasty whining sound.

Nope - the CRT monitor was eight years old or so and the biggest issue I had
with it was that it just kept getting brighter and brighter as the months
went bye.


The problem is, there's no way to ignore it, short of clipping up your
monitor
cable, or running a third party display adjustment program like Powerstip.
I've
used Powerstrip to extend the life of a "broken" monitor before.

Nope - it's in the storage shed, along side the viewsonic 15" monitor that
was my original spare. I'm holding onto the monitor until the local college
of technology has it's 'hardware recycling' event and I can get rid of it
safely. As opposed to just chucking it in the garbage bin...


But if your *computer* crashed, it sounds to me like the VGA-out was
failing,
and it overheated the card at the higher resolution output levels. You
switched
to DVI, and since that works, you're stable as bedrock.

You might be right. I was just absolutely shocked that I could run a video
output at that high a resolution without the computer shutting down.


On a side note: Does the card even have a 15-pin VGA out, or did it
require a
DVI->VGA dongle?

It has both a built-in VGA and DVI port.

Thanks for the information. Your answer makes a lot of sense.


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