[geeks] tis the season for hardware to fail...

[Shannon]

Seems like its time for some of my hardware to start failing.

UPS batteries died last month, now my main display seems to be.

Symptoms: Every now and then, I get vertical lines made up of multi-colored
dots flickering on and off.  Each vertical line is about a half centimeter
apart from the next.

None of the controls seems to have any effect except contrast. Changing
contrast changes the areas of the screen (different colors and brightness
levels) where the lines are drawn.

The lines can be very minor or severe and screen filling.

This happens randomly. It will be fine for days or even weeks, then I'll have
1-6 hours of this, then its OK again.

I have isolated this to the monitor: 3 different computers, and skipping the
DVI switch, and using different cables direct to machines all show the
problem.

This is an NEC LCD2470WNX, not a cheap display, so I'd really like to be able
to fix it if possible. NEC tech support was forever answering and never
answered the email query I sent.

Any ideas?

I think I'm probably just out of luck and will be buying a new LCD soon, but
would like to avoid it.

Buying a new one sucks because most don't have the display quality this one
does, and nearly every one you can buy locally is movie resolution, which I
hate. I want the more square typical computer resolution of 1920x1200.

Went to 5 stores just to see what cost might be, and every single one of the
LCD displays they have for sale are HDTV aspect ratio. Ick.



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Shannon Hendrix
shannon at widomaker.com