Monitor has gone dead! (kinda)

[mrblack]

Hi everyone,

I desperately need help! I was using my monitor yesterday, then it kind of shut down like a TV, then it came back up with a vertical white line in the middle of the monitor. Now, I dont mean that the monitor is displaying fine just with a white line in the middle, I mean that all there is is the white line! What the line essentially is is the monitor display squashed down into a line.

This happened with my GF's TV, apparently there was a screw in the back of the TV where when they turned it, they could re-expand the TV display.

Help?

[Uranus]

Bring your monitor to a computer store and let them turn a screw?
Sam

[mdwatts]

What about when you first boot, do you see the bios/cmos boot messages or only the white line?

Can you test the monitor on another pc to rule out the video card?

[The Linux Kid]

Just want to quickly say:

DON'T OPEN YOUR MONITOR!!

There are very high voltages inside (even if it is off and unplugged) and if you are inexperienced, you die! I tried to open my monitor before, luckily I only got thrown half way accross the room...

The Linux Kid

[kevinalm]

Originally posted by The Linux Kid
Just want to quickly say:

DON'T OPEN YOUR MONITOR!!

There are very high voltages inside (even if it is off and unplugged) and if you are inexperienced, you die! I tried to open my monitor before, luckily I only got thrown half way accross the room...

The Linux Kid

As a professional etech, let me say _very_well_said_. We're talking 30,000 to 50,000 volts while running, with enough current drive to kill in seconds. (like one second maybe). Because of the high frequency you don't have to touch it, it can jump an inch or more under the right conditions. And yes, even shut off and unplugged there can still be a dc charge in the tens of kilovolt range. Tv's and computer monitors are no place to mess around unless you _absolutely_ know what you're doing.

Re your monitor, try it on another computer to be sure, but my best guess is that it's road ballast. Sounds like the horizontal drive is toast, and that is very bad. Don't suppose it's still under warranty? :(

[mrblack]

The monitor is like this even when its not plugged into the computer, it is like this when it is turned on and should be displaying the "No signal received" display, which I guess it does... but its squashed up so tiny I couldnt possibly see it.

This is really amazing... the monitor wasnt buzzing before it did this, it wasnt flickering, it was working absolutely perfectly, then did this.