Can this switching back and forth damage the monitor?

Jose


Max Timchenko wrote:

> On Saturday, 12 May 2001, you wrote:
>
> >Do monitors operate at a different resolution while booting up or
> >shutting down?
>
> Yes, and you'll be surprised to know how many resolutions are there
> - let's list the modes as detected by my monitor:
>
> 1) The BIOS boot screen works in 80x25 text
> 2) The Windows 98 start-up ("Starting Windows 98...") is 80x25 text
> as well, but different timing and refresh rate, so the monitor regards
> it as a different mode
> 3) The Windows 98 "logo" startup screen (with the blue bar) is in
> non-standard VGA mode (320x400x8-bit color) at 60Hz
> 4) The desktop opens in user-selected mode (1280x1024x32, in my case)
>
> Windows 2000 operates similarly but the "logo" (Starting Windows
> 2000) is in 640x480x4-bit color@60 Hz.

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