Shaking Monitor Screen?

[BIB]

You when you deguase your screen, it shakes and then sets into place. Well my shaking happens at random. Sometimes it will shake a little, or a lot, and sometimes not at all. It is not the monitor as i have tried two of them, it is not the video card because it does the same thing on a different one also. Then i thought interference, but i never move the wires and it comes and goes, so i ruled that out. Plus moving the wires into a different position does not help. So can the power be causing this issue? My roommate is also having the same problem. If it is the power or not, can this shaking hurt my monitor at all?

[Disturb3d]

Stating the obvious, cellphones, TV's, radios etc. cause abnormal frequencies to be recieved by your monitor, therefore may cause it to shudder. Make sure these objects are away from your monitor.

Another problem could be your video card drivers. If you are not running your latest video card drivers, it may cause faulty signals to be sent to the monitor. Update your drivers for the correct model.

If you have had your monitors for a while (both the one's you have tried to use) the monitor signal may have become weak, presuming something your CPU did not tell it to do, therefore doing something it altogether should not be.

If new hardware such as speakers have been applied, and drivers installed, are you sure you have restarted your computer yet?

If not there may be some other solution to this problem, try e-mailing the manufacturer for additional advice.

Edit: I doubt the shaking will directly harm your monitor, but it may decrease the time in which your pixels will work acceptably. If any pixels begin to fail during the shaking, contact the manufacturer and explain the situation. I am sure they would be happy to refund it. If this was a particularly expensive monitor and they refuse a refund, contact me for more enforcing advice.

[Feydd]

I had this to, i had my refresh rate set at 80, turned it down to 72 and havn't had it since.

[Restorer]

Microwaves are known to do this, even from far away. You could make some sort of Faraday cage to put between your monitor and the possible direction of the microwaves. Look in the door of a microwave - see the wire mesh? Get some about that size and put a screen of it around your monitor.

[Yuriman]

Most electric motors will also do this.

[Slimmy]

I have the same problem. Shakes sometimes then not at all. Weird. I think it might be the My old house's wiring plus the other stuff. Motors, fans, microwaves and ect. Oh well. Doesn't hurt the monitor, but make my head hurt sometimes.

[BIB]

It must be the power.
Tv, radio etc are now way near my monitor. This shaking happens with the microwave off so it is not that all. I got the lastest video card drivers. This is a brand new monitor and the fresh rate is fine. Lower refresh rate, it does the same thing.

[madcow235]

its your power if you live in an old house. I have an old house and old wiring, just got rewired so i have both old and new in the same room. On the old wiring my monitor shakes like crazy and my sound sounds horrible, i dont think it has a real ground. My new wiring is like perfection

[BIB]

then that would be my problem. This is an older apartment and the wiring is not grounded.

[RoadWarrior]

sometimes just shifting the frequency of the monitor slightly can make the problem either go away or become considerably less annoying. One way to do this is as Feydd suggested to change the refresh rate in properties. Another is to use one of the adjustment tools that comes with many ATi and Nvidia cards nowadays, the one that lets one reposition one's screen and stretch and shrink it. These work by changing the frequencies the card is putting out very slightly. Whereas the controls on the monitor just alter the voltage bias on the coils or something. Anyway, on a machine that was experiencing this problem in my house, one click on the left screen position arrow is enough to completely stop the screen shaking, with the ATi Rage drivers. Try a few clicks right or left, or a slight resize (if it goes off the side you can bring it back with the monitor controls)

regards,

Road Warrior

[Sentential]

My Sammie 17inch did that just before it died :(. I had to RMA it...not fun

[rhino56]

its probably within the monitor itself and not the comp. i had that problem with my gateway after like 4 years.

[RoadWarrior]

Yeah it's interference in the monitor most likely, due to harmonic beat frequencies and such, just slight changes can make the resonance go away, which is why I suggest tweaking the card settings. It's not the card but it can help you avoid it.

[Zork]

Do you have your case sitting next to your monitor.. I have seen fans cause such shaking since some create a small magnetic field from the motors, very small, but I have seen it happen when a case is close enough and the case has enough fans?? Just something to check.....