CRT about to die?

ray · 21 May 2006 at 15:53

Hi everyone,

Once every week or so I get a strange thing happen to my monitor:

Could my monitor be about to CRT heaven or could it be a graphics card problem?

Thanks for any help.

Ray.

ray · 21 May 2006 at 16:38

Thanks UOcUK Poopscoop for the info. I'll give it a try the next time it happens.

I usually just turn the monitor off and on and its fine.

If it is faulty I think this will be the perfect excuse for me to replace it with an LCD monitor.

ray · 21 May 2006 at 17:08

KizZ said:
Looks like the aliens are coming

Great! That's all I need right now

ray · 21 May 2006 at 17:14

MrFunex said:
I had exactly the same problem on an old Panasonic CRT. Solved it the same way too, just turn it off and back on again - worked fine. Seemed to happen every month or so but didn't affect it's operation.

How long has your monitor suffered from this? Has it got better/worse/same?

Thanks MrFunex

ray · 21 May 2006 at 18:20

Thanks for the replies.

Unfortunately I've had the monitor for more than 3 years so the warranty will have expired.

The problem has only appeared in the last couple of months so I hope it will last a few more and then I'll probably replace it.

On the other hand, I suppose it wouldn't hurt to phone up Mitsubishi to see what they say.