Vista Tutorial - Blurry Vista Monitor sometimes happens

I sometimes get my main monitor blurry (I have 2).
It looks like the resolution decreased and it even has these small horizontal lines flashing you can notice when you look real close to it. It resembles “static”.

To fix it, I can go to the nVidia control panel and switch the monitor configuration and then hit “No” when it asks me if I want to keep the setting.
But then it will come back again later at random it seems.

Anyone heard of this problem?

Loose connector?

On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:35:13 -0600, rasmasyean wrote:
How old is your monitor? It sounds to me like it is dying. Or perhaps you
have a loose signal connection...Or a source of electronic interference.

Is it a CRT?

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It's only like a year old. It's an LCD. I have it at the native resolution and all. But if it was the monitor, why would toggling the settings "reset" it back to normal? Shouldn't it stay that way?

rasmasyean wrote:
It's probably your video card. The random nature and the way you fix it
points to hardware. Eventually, the "fix" won't work any more. If you want
to rule out the monitor, you can attach the computer to a different one.
Obviously, if the problems don't recur, you know it's time to start looking
for a new monitor. If the problems are present with a different monitor,
uninstall your video card and swap it out for a known-working one as your
next troubleshooting step.

If the computer is under warranty, exercise that warranty. If you can't do
the work yourself (and there is no shame in admitting this isn't your cup
of tea), take the machine to a professional computer repair shop (not your
local equivalent of BigComputerStore/GeekSquad). If possible, have all your
data backed up before you take the machine into a shop.

Malke
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I noticed that the nVidia card doesn't say "Windows Vista Certified" on it like the Samsung monitor. Could that be a light bulb? I'm using 64-bit as well so...maybe they "did the best they could" with the drivers and all?

rasmasyean wrote:
I've had a couple of video cards fail due to bad capacitors, in both
cases the damage was visible as split "Cans".

http://www.badcaps.net/pages.php?vid=5

One symptom was that the display would work "Sometimes" and once working
would usually stay on, but if turned off the machine took like 20
attempts to restart.

I really doubt that this is due to the card not being "Vista" certified.

When you say it goes "Blurry" I assume the screen resolution does not
change - LCD monitors like their own native screen resolution best and
if you set something different the pixels overlap and you lose clarity.
If it's Vista related then something changing the screen resolution
might be the cause, otherwise my bet would be the video card.