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Hi Neal
This is almost certain to be a monitor problem. It's called a horz.
foldover and is likely a yoke (the coil of wire around the neck of the pix
tube) problem. Your "screen flicker" is your clue. The cost of repair will
be more than the price of a new monitor.
mike michel --- [log in to unmask]
On Thu, 31 May 2001 16:57:42 EDT, PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware
discussion List wrote:
> Hi all,
> A little while back, my screen flickered and when it refreshed itself, a
> problem showed up. If I have a window open, ie solitaire, AOL, pretty
much
> anything, that window is readable and everything, except that a ghost of
the
> window or smear is present on each side of the window all the way to the
edge
> of the screen. Device manager shows no problems in either the video card
or
> the monitor. I haven't tried a new monitor or video card yet..because I
don't
> have any extra's at the moment.
> Anyone have any ideas what it might be??
> The computer is an HP Pavilion 8562, running dual boot win 98 and win 2k
> (problem exists in both environments). Monitor is Viewmate 17" and
graphics
> card is Nvidia Vanta 8mb AGP.
> Thanks for your time,
>
> Neal Collins
> A+
>
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