Can an LCD display be damaged by the wrong display output?

[alan]

On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Gilboa Davara wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 07:06 -0500, Rick Bilonick wrote:
>> I have a Planar 20" PL2010M LCD monitor. I attached it to an Athlon 64
>> system running FC6 and using the nvidia proprietary driver (the latest
>> available). I tried (foolishly) the 1920x1080 interlaced output. The
>> monitor said it was outside the range. I reset to 1600x1200
>> noninterlaced and everything was fine. Later I connected a similar
>> computer (running FC5) that was displaying 1920x1080i (same nvidia card
>> - 5700LE or such). I noticed my mistake right away and I immediately
>> disconnected the monitor. Now, the PL2010M won't display anything. The
>> on light switches quickly from green to a constant yellow and displays
>> "no input signal" on the screen regardless of whether I'm using the
>> analog or digital input. I can no longer bring up the setup menu (e.g.,
>> to change from analog to digital) - no menu whatsoever. I called Planar
>> and they said it wouldn't damage the display but it seems like too much
>> of a coincidence.
>>
>> Rick B.
>
> Unless you have 20 y/o CRT, your LCD/CRT will simply shut down if you
> try to use an invalid resolution/refresh rate.
> Some monitors will not display the OSD (E.g. Menu) when connected to
> invalid display source.
> Just disconnect the monitor from the machine and/or fix the X.org
> configuration and the menu will work just fine.

You are off by about 10 years.  Those did not come about until about 
1995-96.  Some flat panels were worse.  (I have an NCD flat panel that got 
damaged by bad frequencies.)

What was the date the displa was made?

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