http://www.hardocp.com news item, and elsewhere.

The 3.8 drivers causing monitor damage scare is probably some Nvidia
mis-information counter-espionage campaign effort.

We need more Yellow Alerts from Ashcroft's office to take our minds off
videocard terrorism.

rms

Ha ha cool damage my 14 inch monitor i dont care it will give me a reason to
get a 19 inch flat screen
"rms" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> http://www.hardocp.com news item, and elsewhere.
>
> The 3.8 drivers causing monitor damage scare is probably some Nvidia
> mis-information counter-espionage campaign effort.
>
> We need more Yellow Alerts from Ashcroft's office to take our minds off
> videocard terrorism.
>
> rms
>
>

"Brad" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:c0%kb.1900$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Ha ha cool damage my 14 inch monitor i dont care it will give me a reason
to
> get a 19 inch flat screen


14"? Sounds like reason enough to get a 19"!

- Daniel

rms wrote:

> http://www.hardocp.com news item, and elsewhere.
>
> The 3.8 drivers causing monitor damage scare is probably some Nvidia
> mis-information counter-espionage campaign effort.
>
> We need more Yellow Alerts from Ashcroft's office to take our minds off
> videocard terrorism.
>
> rms

Then I would like to see ATI tell us why they think there are so far 183
cases of reported monitor damage since installing CAT3.8 drivers.

I'd like to see you tell us where you got that from.

Mike

"Horace Halfbottom" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> rms wrote:
>
> > http://www.hardocp.com news item, and elsewhere.
> >
> > The 3.8 drivers causing monitor damage scare is probably some Nvidia
> > mis-information counter-espionage campaign effort.
> >
> > We need more Yellow Alerts from Ashcroft's office to take our minds off
> > videocard terrorism.
> >
> > rms
>
> Then I would like to see ATI tell us why they think there are so far 183
> cases of reported monitor damage since installing CAT3.8 drivers.

http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthre...0&pagenumber=3


"Horace Halfbottom" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> rms wrote:
>
> > http://www.hardocp.com news item, and elsewhere.
> >
> > The 3.8 drivers causing monitor damage scare is probably some Nvidia
> > mis-information counter-espionage campaign effort.
> >
> > We need more Yellow Alerts from Ashcroft's office to take our minds off
> > videocard terrorism.
> >
> > rms
>
> Then I would like to see ATI tell us why they think there are so far 183
> cases of reported monitor damage since installing CAT3.8 drivers.

On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 21:15:56 GMT, "rms" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>http://www.hardocp.com news item, and elsewhere.
>
>The 3.8 drivers causing monitor damage scare is probably some Nvidia
>mis-information counter-espionage campaign effort.

You know, I was starting to wonder if it was something like that. I
don't think I ever saw anyone who actually had a monitor that was
killed by 3.8. It was always, "I know this guy who knows this one guy
who it happened to."


Crash7
remove x's from address to email

"Horace Halfbottom" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> rms wrote:
>
> > http://www.hardocp.com news item, and elsewhere.
> >
> > The 3.8 drivers causing monitor damage scare is probably some Nvidia
> > mis-information counter-espionage campaign effort.
> >
> > We need more Yellow Alerts from Ashcroft's office to take our minds off
> > videocard terrorism.
> >
> > rms
>
> Then I would like to see ATI tell us why they think there are so far 183
> cases of reported monitor damage since installing CAT3.8 drivers.

Reported to whom? According to ATI there have been no such cases reported
to them.

I would suspect that the only way a video driver could ruin a monitor is if
the refresh rate was too high. Since that is a changeable setting then it
comes under the heading of operator error not video driver design problem.

"Crash7" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 21:15:56 GMT, "rms" <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
>
> >http://www.hardocp.com news item, and elsewhere.
> >
> >The 3.8 drivers causing monitor damage scare is probably some Nvidia
> >mis-information counter-espionage campaign effort.
>
> You know, I was starting to wonder if it was something like that. I
> don't think I ever saw anyone who actually had a monitor that was
> killed by 3.8. It was always, "I know this guy who knows this one guy
> who it happened to."
>
>
> Crash7
> remove x's from address to email

Greg wrote:
> I would suspect that the only way a video driver could ruin a monitor is
> if the refresh rate was too high. Since that is a changeable setting
> then it comes under the heading of operator error not video driver design
> problem.

But not, if has been alleged, the driver ignores the user setting, and
ignores the monitor driver settings and sets it higher than is capable.

Ben
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