Interesting cube video behavior

[Snow White]

Next time your monitor displays this behavior and you have enough money 
to replace it - give it a good hard wack on the side and see if that 
clears it up.  If not, well at least this action can help relieve a bit 
of stress as you watch your monitor die out completely.  Smaller CRT 
monitors, like yours, are not worth fixing most of the time, as brand 
new ones are dirt cheap and used ones are abound as flat screens 
displace them.

Just my 2¢.

jj

On Saturday, October 4, 2003, at 08:09 AM, Cube List wrote:

> Interesting cube video behavior
> Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 03:10:43 -0400
> Message-ID: <000001c38a46$a01413c0$0300a8c0 at deacnet.wfu.edu>
>
> Fellow list-ers,
> My cube has been exhibiting some odd video behavior as of late. I'm
> currently using my stock ATI Rage 128 Pro card (16MB) to drive an 
> older =
> IBM
> 17" CRT monitor set at 1024x768,85Hz. Every few minutes, the screen 
> will =
> dim
> a bit and then gradually return to normal brightness. Sometimes, the =
> screen
> will become ever-so-slightly distorted in the middle for about 3 
> seconds
> before returning to normal. Any CRT aficionados out there know if is =
> this
> the sign that the CRT is starting to go bad? Or should I be concerned =
> about
> the graphic card (possibly overheating)? The cube is totally stock =
> 450MHz
> but was upgraded with the quiet Western Digital 80gig HD. Any help on =
> this
> matter would be greatly appreciated, as I'm probably replacing this 
> CRT =
> soon
> and would like to donate it in full working order. Thanks all.