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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

Thanks for the second chance, that's very nice of you!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.

Ken

by garbski

Yes, we installed a new video driver but now we are thinking that, as I work a floor above some manufacturing machinery and below some more equipment, and with Christmas season approaching, that it might be a piece of machinery that is causing the problem. I'm keeping a log of what time it happens and once armed with this information, we can march downstairs and say "what the heck is going on here!"

Once again, thanks!

Peggy

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