Jim said:
About twice an hour in XP , my 8 year old ViewSonic 17PS monitor
blinks off-and-on .
Perhaps is AC power surge , fixed by AC surge protector ?
Thanks , Jim D
Flyback arcing ? Snapping sound ? The blinking is the circuit
misbehaving because of overload. Purely a monitor problem.
A workaround you can try, is reducing either the refresh rate
or the resolution (any stuff that affects the horizontal and
vertical frequencies). A trivial change like that, stopped the
snapping on my old monitor. And I did eventually find a
burn mark around the flyback. But you don't repair burn
marks, as the carbon trail left tends to be permanent, and
is there the next time the thing wants to break down and
arc.
My monitor was damaged during a lightning storm, and the
snapping started just after that, about every half hour
or so. I ran it for another two years, at a reduced resolution,
before replacing with an LCD.
The time for the surge suppressor, is before it happens.
Paul
