Shaking screen

Kon-Tiki · Post by **Kon-Tiki** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 5:56 pm 0

So, I'm trying to study for tomorrow morning, reading up on ebooks and practicing code, but what's my screen decide to do? IT BLOODY WELL DECIDES TO SHAKE THE LETTERS LIKE THEY'RE ON AN EXTRA-BASS SPEAKER! Makes my eyes boil, along with my blood, because I got to get this studying done, and can't spare any time, but can't study when the lines are shaking worse than a Parkinson patient's hands.

I tried degaussing, and that didn't do snot. I tried rebooting, and the moment Windows closed off and showed the "Windows is shutting down" screen, it turned to normal. Booting up again got everything back to normal, until 5 minutes later. It went NUTS then. I opened my comp and put a desktop fan to blow into it at full-force, which made it even worse. Turning the fan down didn't turn the shaking down, though. For the record, the shaking was there before the fan was turned on.

I shut the comp down again and booted it up again and it's fine now, but I dunno for how long. Does anybody know what the bloody hell is up with this?

Saint Sandy · Post by **Saint Sandy** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 6:07 pm 0

STOP WANKING!

matt303 · Post by **matt303** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 6:08 pm 0

Anything electrical near the monitor, very often shaking is caused by magnetism from something electrical near the monitor.

Kon-Tiki · Post by **Kon-Tiki** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 6:16 pm 0

Nope, computer, screen, fan (but fan was turned off). It's not the kind of thing a cellphone would do.

fred_zen · Post by **fred_zen** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 6:37 pm 0

Monitor ageing? Try turning down the refresh frequency a notch.

isomies · Post by **isomies** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 7:16 pm 0

Years ago, there used to be a corner of the office where this used to happen, apparently it was the nearest corner to the electricity sub station just outside. The nutter used to sit in that corner. (hi shane!)

I've seen it with speakers too near the monitor - try moving the monitor around on the desk if possible.

Kon-Tiki · Post by **Kon-Tiki** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 7:17 pm 0

If it's because it's located too near something electric, how come it's stood like this for a few years, and only starts doing it now? (And stops when I put the fan there and rebooted)

Alarm · Post by **Alarm** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 7:19 pm 0

Maybe the electrons need cleaning or something.

chub · Post by **chub** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 7:20 pm 0

It's knackered.

Spoongod · Post by **Spoongod** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 7:28 pm 0

Have you got an option on your monitor to degauss the screen? You can degauss stuff manually, but I wouldn't know where to start. I think it involved magnets but I'm not about to advise you to stick a magnet near a CRT.

Are there speakers near the screen? I know you'd probably have specified that but as monitors get older, stuff that never used to bother than becomes noticably a problem.

~D4T45H4T~ · Post by **~D4T45H4T~** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 7:36 pm 0

Try it at a lower resolution / refresh rate.

fred_zen · Post by **fred_zen** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 7:45 pm 0

~D4T45H4T~ wrote:Try it at a lower resolution / refresh rate.

And start saving for a new monitor.

Kon-Tiki · Post by **Kon-Tiki** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 9:12 pm 0

Spoongod wrote:Have you got an option on your monitor to degauss the screen? You can degauss stuff manually, but I wouldn't know where to start. I think it involved magnets but I'm not about to advise you to stick a magnet near a CRT.

Are there speakers near the screen? I know you'd probably have specified that but as monitors get older, stuff that never used to bother than becomes noticably a problem.

Tried degaussing. The thing that makes me think it's not the screen itself, is that, when shutting Windows down, once it says: "Windows is now shutting down", it stopped shaking. Right now, it's still fine, so the desktop fan's doing a good job. I'll put in some case fans tomorrow and'll look for a better case (this one's a bit rubbish when it comes to cooling ever since I lost my 92x92 fan in front after it hit my DVD-drive), as it seems like it was an overheating problem (since it's fixed with the fan on it)

Kamineko · Post by **Kamineko** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 9:53 pm 0

Until you can buy a new monitor, I suggest you try shaking yourself to an equal degree.

Kon-Tiki · Post by **Kon-Tiki** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 11:07 pm 0

Fuck, it's back

Edit: Turned the screen off and back on and now it doesn't anymore

Maybe the turning Windows off thing switches graphics mode, turning power off for a moment, releasing whatever causes the shaking? Or am I talking rubbish with this?