I have an antique Viewsonic monitor which several of my readers have repaired over the years usually when it just went black. I am now getting occasional flickering of different colors, sometimes localized, sometimes broadly distributed. I am sure that this means it is on its last legs. Any guesses as to what is going to fail? Would it make more sense to buy a new monitor when this fails? I can get a 22" 1920x1080 for $80 at Amazon.
Two causes: loss of red was a loose connector on the monitor (that should have been obvious); the flicker seemed to reduce with an updated driver. If I could find the refresh rate control, I would try that. It seems that this is fixed at 60 Hz.
I would definitely get a new monitor. When my old 21" Dell monitor went out, I found a 32" 1080p TV that I thought would get me by until I could get a proper monitor.
ReplyDeleteThat was over a year ago, and I'm still using that 32" Acer flatscreen, running it at native resolution of 1920x1080 with an HDMI connection from my Nvidia GTX660 video card. It has a beautiful picture, is plenty sharp & I can have 4 pages across open on it at once. For watching movies it's great too!
Oh, and it doesn't break my back to move it, either- which was a real worry with my old Dell!
Please keep us posted on what you choose to do!