isezumi00

I dont know how many of you remember the Merkortech crazy of '02. But I was one of the lucky souls to jump on the hyooge refurb monitor bandwagon. I bought a 21" SGI badged Triny, I now have a particularly odd problem. When I bought the sucker it was speced to do 16x12 @75. After almost 2 years, it really cant run ANY resolution any higher than 60Hz anything higher and the image wiggles. There is no wiggling at 60 but it becomes apparent at any refresh rate higher, also as you kick up the refreshrate...the rate at which it wiggles gets higher. I was thinking that theoretically if I "could" take it to like 120Hz it would be moving so fast that I wouldnt notice, but thats besides the point. What I would like to know is why is it doing this. I know its a supported resolution/RR by the monitor, so the only thing that I can even marginally think of is out of whack convergence or something that deals with gun alignment. I would hate to think that my beast is just getting too old to do the work.

thrawn86

like, you can't run 16x12 at all? it just goes black or the image goes wiggly or what

isezumi00

I can run all the resolutions, its just that if I run it with a refresh higher than 60Hz it all begin to shake.

Low Roller

Thats not good. I had a Cornerstone 21" that just kept getting dimmer and dimmer. It became so difficult to look at I finally threw in the towel and bought a Dell LCD.

irwincur

Try a new power outlet. A shaky monitor is normally caused by power fluctuations. So it is either at the wall or in the monitor. It is worth a shot.

jester22c

It could also be a failing power component within the monitor itself. If you have a leaking capacitor for example the power load will fluctuate between the ones intact causing some instability. A word of warning about working on the internals of monitors though... you can easily get fried if you're not careful. Alot of things can be fixed with a trip to radioshack and about 10 minutes but if you're unsure about things just take it to a local shop to have the component replaced for you.

Recon

shaking monitors can also be a symptom of EM interference. I know I thought my monitor was kaput untill I moved it to the other side of the room...

seems monitors dont like being next to break out boxes

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Cloud Strife

I can only run ONE refrsh too. 75 hz and then my monitor would distort geometry and can't be tweaked to fix, the top and bottom are Squashed more than half an inch total (.3, .3 inch on top then bottom)

I got it used at ebay, and so...the fix charge by Sun/sony is 300 XD the vertical refresh is partly broken they said. so it doesnt size right or go over or under 75 without problem.

LAst week my monitor started making popping sounds and turning off then on. Wow is it dying too? then it went blurry..nothing lately though