Is My Monitor on the Way Out?

[Si]

I have a Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 930SB monitor and over the past couple of
days I've noticed a sort of ghost line appears at the bottom of the screen.
It moves up and down a bit and I noticed that, for a split second, the
picture contracts a tiny bit and then returns to normal. I should point out
that this is not one of the two feint lines that are ever present on the
screen. Up until this started, PC has been rock solid for a long time.

Does anyone have any idea why it's doing this?

Cheers.

Si

Windows XP Pro SP2
Pentium 4 3.0MHz 800FSB (Prescott)
Gigabyte 8KNXP (Rev 2) Motherboard
1 GB Corsair TwinX PC3200 Ram (Dual Channel)
XFX GeForce 6800 GT 256MB DDR3
40GB WD Hard Drive 7200rpm (C Drive)
120GB WD Hard Drive 7200rpm (D Drive)
120GB WD Hard Drive 7200rpm (E Drive)
120GB WD Hard Drive 7200rpm (F Drive)
LiteOn 52x24x52 CD-ReWriter
DVD-Rom
SB Audigy 2
Zalman 400W PSU

 

[truverman]

I have a Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 930SB monitor and over the
past couple of
days I've noticed a sort of ghost line appears at the bottom
of the screen.
It moves up and down a bit and I noticed that, for a split
second, the
picture contracts a tiny bit and then returns to normal. I
should point out
that this is not one of the two feint lines that are ever
present on the
screen. Up until this started, PC has been rock solid for a
long time.

Does anyone have any idea why it's doing this?

Cheers.

Si

Windows XP Pro SP2
Pentium 4 3.0MHz 800FSB (Prescott)
Gigabyte 8KNXP (Rev 2) Motherboard
1 GB Corsair TwinX PC3200 Ram (Dual Channel)
XFX GeForce 6800 GT 256MB DDR3
40GB WD Hard Drive 7200rpm (C Drive)
120GB WD Hard Drive 7200rpm (D Drive)
120GB WD Hard Drive 7200rpm (E Drive)
120GB WD Hard Drive 7200rpm (F Drive)
LiteOn 52x24x52 CD-ReWriter
DVD-Rom
SB Audigy 2
Zalman 400W PSU

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how old is this monitor?

do you leave it on 24/7?
-how much do you use it.

i would say from past experinces that yeah if the monitor is a bit old
and starts to have defects in the picture it might be going bad. have
you tried the monitor on a different computer? i can tell that its not
you card but do it just for kicks.

 

[Si]

It's about 18 months old. I do use it a lot, probably 17/7. Unfortunately I
do not have access to another PC to try it out on.

Cheers.

Si

 

[larry moe 'n curly]

I have a Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 930SB monitor and over the past couple of
days I've noticed a sort of ghost line appears at the bottom of the screen.
It moves up and down a bit and I noticed that, for a split second, the
picture contracts a tiny bit and then returns to normal. I should point out
that this is not one of the two feint lines that are ever present on the
screen. Up until this started, PC has been rock solid for a long time.

Does anyone have any idea why it's doing this?

sci.electronics.repair has lots of experts who will know. A

is the picture really shrink, or does the line move slightly up and
down the picture? Because if it's the latter, maybe all you need to
do is tweak the vertical size adjustment (maybe the internal one, not
the user control), but if the picture actually shrinks there may be a
problem in the vertical output section, such as an electrolytic
capacitor going bad (and will eventually turn the picture into a single
horizontal line). It's a cheap fix if you know how to solder, but
otherwise the labor will make the repair cost more than a cheap
brand-new 19" monitor (Fry's recently had a 19" Daewoo for $70 after
rebate).

Does NEC-Mitsubishi still pay for shipping both ways during the 3-year
warranty period of their monitors? I thought that they had a deal
where they did for their Mitsubishi brand monitors but not their NEC
brand.