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Monitor Woes - please help!

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by garbski

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For over a week now, the display on my monitor has been "flickering" - it either looks as if the monitor temporarily lost power, or else it resizes the windows a bit smaller and then returns to normal size, giving a bit of an "up and down" effect.

The support people have given me an APC, thinking it was a surge problem, have replaced the monitor, the monitor cable to the p.c. and have replaced the video card. Unfortunately these steps haven't helped.

What else could be happening here?It's really hard to analyze data and program when the display is moving around.

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by syscokid

Could be electromagnetic interference. Since it just started happening, did any new electronic equipment get instaled or set up near where your workstation is? Any new wiring nearby?

Also, you didn't mention whether you reinstalled your video driver. That's another thing to try

by garbski

When the video card was replaced, a new video driver was installed. I was thinking it was some sort of electromagnetic problem, as my office is upstairs and downstairs from manufacturing machines. I also just had a new drop-down keyboard shelf installed, so the cords from my mouse and keyboard may have been acting as antenna for this interference, so we've just pulled them up further from the floor. If this doesn't work, we might try a cordless mouse and keyboard.

Thanks for your suggestions - you get the points!

Peggy

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