Dwarf

Hi hatehereyes,

If you still have your CRT monitor and it is still working, temporarily reconnect it to your PC and boot up into Vista. Right-click on a blank spot on the desktop and select 'Personalize'. From the screen that appears, select 'Display Settings'. Change the resolution to 800 x 600 and click 'Apply'. Next, click 'Advanced Settings...' and select the 'Monitor' tab from the resultant screen. Under 'Screen refresh rate:', set this to 60 Hertz and then click 'OK' twice to exit the dialogue boxes. Next, shut down and reconnect your LCD monitor to your PC. Restart your machine and follow the above instructions. This time, set the resolution to be equal to the native resolution of your monitor (refer to the monitor manual), but leave the refresh rate at 60 Hertz. Because of the difference in technology between CRT and LCD displays, the refresh rate isn't as important. Basically, a CRT display is scanned by an electron beam and at any instant of time only one group, or triad, of red green and blue pixels is illuminated. When the electron beam moves to the next group, the light intensity of the previous group starts to decay. In order to prevent it decaying altogether, the refresh rate needs to be set so that the pixels are constantly refreshed, and, thanks to a feature of our sight known as 'persistance of vision', this is achieved by using the same technology as is found in TVs, albeit at a higher frequency. This is why, if you have the refresh rate too low, you may notice the screen flicker. An LCD display operates in a different way. Basically, each pixel remains active or inactive until it receives a signal to switch its state, so the problem of refresh is virtually eliminated.
Dwarf