is my crt toast?

[Niku-Sama]

alright, ofcourse this happens after i dump my old monitors.

today i turned everything on and started playing a game when my monitor would go blurry, some times so much it looked like a big pastel smear and then CLICK and it was fine, it also would kinda fade back and fourth from being fuzzy to sharp.

its a "Dell" Trinitron P1110.

could it be a bad monitor cable? it shadows really bad and its not a well sheilded cable

[Silversinksam]

Not sure if it will help, but you could manually Degauss the trinitron and see if it helps. Make sure your cables are tight as well.

[guillaume]

I've had that happen with one of my 5 year old Viewsonic 21'' CRT. The problem then disappeared totally for 2 month. Then one day it just died.

[Niku-Sama]

well i was gonna post that it went away but just as i clicked on the topic link it did it again, if i wap the side of it it kinda fixes it but not always

this is werid

edit:
forgot to say deguass didnt work, i'm gonna rummage arround inside of it see if theres a bad cap or transformer or something noticeable soon.
earlier in the week i fixed a tv, broken cold solder points on a transformer, i dont think i'll get as lucky with this one

[guillaume]

yep, sounds VERY familiar. It may last for a little while longer, but if what happened to me is any indication, I'm afraid the future of your crt doesn't look bright...

[Epox4life]

My trinitron has been acting up latly it can't hold its corners very square and when I turn it off and back on the image is out of shape.

[legionaire45]

sucks to hear about your monitor. As a replacement if this one does die I would have to reccomend the Benq FP202W. Its cheap ($250 n Newegg), 20.1", has a nice response time for the price (8ms). Also does 1680 x 1050 Res. Nice and Widescreen :)

[Niku-Sama]

lcds in my mind arent quite up to par yet. soon i bet but not yet.
i'll figure out some way to repair it, probally gonna swap it out with one from my parents untill then

thanks for the heads up though

[JRW]

From what ive read in the past a monitor that has a dried up solder joint can cause those symptoms, especially if smacking the side of it makes it go back to normal.. the hard part is finding the dried solder joint.

[Niku-Sama]

i fixed a tv because of cold solder joints, i am guessing thats what your talking about...i havent reid wacking it but it hasnt been doing it the past few days

[Will Eatforfood]

LCDs not being up to par is pretty hard to believe. A decent model will outperform a CRt nowadays. The ghosting "scare" is pretty much gone with most LCDs being less than 8ms response time. You could always compare them at your electronics store anyways.

[Niku-Sama]

no its the whole native resolution and the blacks thing. i still notice it on new lcds i am hoping when oled becomes more popular that theyre decently priced and have a better picture but i havent hard any thing new about oled recently

[JRW]

LCDs not being up to par is pretty hard to believe. A decent model will outperform a CRt nowadays. The ghosting "scare" is pretty much gone with most LCDs being less than 8ms response time. You could always compare them at your electronics store anyways.


Even a 2ms LCD cant display framerates as smooth or "fluid" as a CRT (even if you're not seeing any ghosting) ..its hard to explain but Ive witnessed it in a side by side compare (CRT / LCD) then again CRTs have below 1ms response times and higher refresh rates ,refresh rate does matter when it comes to framerates,especially if you run with Vsync enabled. (100hz refresh = 100fps etc.)