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| 380063 | 2005-08-10 08:22:00 | In the last couple of days my Philips 107E Monitor has developed flickering horizontal lines which meander up and down the screen. To make matters worse, the display has begun to have spasm-like contractions. These are momentary but make viewing difficult, especially when trying to make delicate adjustments in Photoshop or indeed anything else. The video card is a NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64 which the device manager assures me is "working properly." OS is W2K SP4, PIII. The only recent change made was to install FXFoto (which I plan to uninstall right now) but I can't see how that could have produced the effects which are intermittant to a degree but present more than they are absent. I know the system is getting old but I can't really afford to replace components at this point and am hoping that there may be some adjustment which will minimise the disturbance. It does not seem to be influenced by either temperature or length of operating time. Dust build-up is removed regularly. Any helpful suggestions gratefully received :waughh: |
Blue Druid (4480) | ||
| 380064 | 2005-08-10 09:54:00 | If, as you say, the machine is old (like mine all are), you might want to update the display adaptor driver. I've just recently done this with success after the graphics rendering was going to pack. (No icons, no graphics, overlayering, all sorts of wierd and disturbing stuff.) You know the the device identity. Look for that on the net and get the latest driver which can fix all sorts of known bugs for it and compatibilty issues with other programs. Any problems get back here. HTH............m |
mark c (247) | ||
| 380065 | 2005-08-10 11:03:00 | Thanks for that suggestion, Mark. I have to admit, it didn't occur to me that there could be an update driver for something so old. I'll try that and post back the outcome. | Blue Druid (4480) | ||
| 380066 | 2005-08-10 12:25:00 | Try the monitor on a computer that is known to be good, to eliminate/incriminate it as the cause of the problem. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 380067 | 2005-08-10 20:54:00 | Thanks for the helpful suggestions. Sadly, trying another PC was not an option since I don't have ready access to one. However, since uninstalling FxFoto and a reboot, the problem seems to have resolved for now. It may be just coincidence since I had experienced the symptoms before although to a lessor degree. However, should it recur (and I am pessimist enough to believe it will) these are the first two options I will try. I also find it hard to believe that an image editor could disrupt the display so much but perhaps the function of creating an 'album' for 3000 odd images was too much for the old girl. I did find a driver download on the NVidia site although it did not specifically refer to my particular display adaptor. It was around 20MB and being on dial-up I decided to shelve that until I had more time. Life could be hard if I lost my display completely by installing the wrong driver so I need to check it out a bit more first perhaps? Thanks again for your help, folks. |
Blue Druid (4480) | ||
| 380068 | 2005-08-10 22:23:00 | I've not had much exp with drivers but 20 megs seems far to much. | mark c (247) | ||
| 380069 | 2005-08-10 23:12:00 | I've not had much exp with drivers but 20 megs seems far to much.Not really, by the time you count the installer file, the installer ini file, other config files, files and drivers for other O/Ss that are usually packaged within the same zipped file ...... | Myth (110) | ||
| 380070 | 2005-08-11 02:50:00 | Running 107S on WIN 95 setup. Following in Manual Check video cable does not have any bent or damaged pins Press OK button and reset to factory settings Increase refresh rate to a value larger or equal to 70 Hz If you have the CD-ROM for the 107E you can instal the Win 2000 driver from that. All instructions in Monitor Quick Start Guide. |
FrankS (257) | ||
| 380071 | 2005-08-11 06:42:00 | Regrettably, WIN 2K had not been released when the monitor was purchased in 1999. Install files supplied were for WIN 98 but have functioned quite satisfactorily for the last 3 years with WIN 2000. I don't do any gaming so the heaviest demand on any of my system is likely to be either large photo files (BMP usually) or large quantities of images when I attempt to sort out their filing system. Crashed the rig a few times doing that but never any problem with the display until recently and even then, never as bad as with FxFoto installed. Everything is more or less back to as it should be since dumping that program. I don't like to bad-mouth a product but it sure did not agree with my geriatric system. However, it does all make me think I should start saving up for a replacement. This lot has done a lot of faithful hours for me but more of everything would be so nice :) |
Blue Druid (4480) | ||
| 380072 | 2005-08-11 07:42:00 | The Monitor drivers have nothing to do with it. A basic Windows plug and play monitor driver would siffice for the monitor. Its the graphics adapter for the PC that has been suggested that the drivers should be updated for. But the "spasm like" contractions sound like impending hardware failure to me, in the monitor. |
godfather (25) | ||
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