just blew up my 17" monitor

[Robert L Cochran]

What brand and model of monitor, anyhow? My impression is that monitors 
tend to be one of the most reliable components around. Hard drives will 
fail before the monitor does. I've known some users to abuse their 
monitors to death, and I've known some monitors to go dead (no picture 
display), but...

Bob

Chris Kloiber wrote:

> On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 22:02, Magtanggol Kalingasan wrote:
> 
>>hi list,
>>
>>I don't know if its fedora's or my monitor's problem, my monitor was unprobed so i entered the Hsync and Vsync from the manual, the installation(fresh install) went smooth. After the installation i was prompted to reboot, the graphical boot-up was nice, i was prompted to create a regular user and all those post install stuff. Then I logged in, saw the GNOME start up. I was begining to navigate the menus when the monitor's view shrunk, then kapooooffff!!!! Then I smelled some burned plastic/stuff coming from my monitor.
>>
>>Kinda weird, i used the same Hsync and Vsync on this same machine with the RH9 install. is it FC1's fault? or bad hardware? any similar experience here?
>>
>>x86
> 
> 
> Ouch.
> 
> This situation was common many, many moons ago if the H/V numbers were
> off. Almost all modern monitors today will shut themselves down if the
> signal received is outside the range they were designed to use. If you
> remember ever seeing a message about the sync being out of range (like
> when rebooting the machine with the monitor on), then I believe this
> burnout was just the monitors time to go. In any event, it's usually
> cheaper to buy a new monitor than to try to re-bottle the magic genie
> smoke at this point.
> 

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Bob Cochran
Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
http://greenbeltcomputer.biz/