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Hi all,
My PC's monitor has started really annoying me - in the last couple of weeks, it has started to flicker a bit when in use. I've assumed it's just on its way out - it is a fair few years old (21" Dell - made by Nokia), and was getting prepared to buy a new one.
Anyway, it does the flickering mostly when something on the screen changes, like dragging a window round. The flickering is definitely not a digital artefact though - the brightness alters rapidly and what look like lines of interference run across it while it flickers.
I've just worked something out though - the flickering is not being caused by something on the monitor changing, but when the CPU is doing something... Loading up SETI@Home and minimising it so that nothing is happening on screen still causes the screen to flicker.
The only thing I can think of is that my 300W PSU gave up a few weeks ago, and now I'm temporarily using a 250W one on my 1Ghz athlon @ 1.33Ghz, and a load of stuff in my PC. Could it be that?
I think it is: My 3.3V line is 3.01V and the 5V line is 4.6V but the 12V line is 12.6V. If I close down Seti@home the 3.3V line goes up to 3.15V, and the 12V line goes down to 12.3V.
I completely forgot I'd changed PSU, and just then was the first time I've checked the voltages! Damn! I was just thinking about buying myself a nice TFT monitor
My PC's monitor has started really annoying me - in the last couple of weeks, it has started to flicker a bit when in use. I've assumed it's just on its way out - it is a fair few years old (21" Dell - made by Nokia), and was getting prepared to buy a new one.
Anyway, it does the flickering mostly when something on the screen changes, like dragging a window round. The flickering is definitely not a digital artefact though - the brightness alters rapidly and what look like lines of interference run across it while it flickers.
I've just worked something out though - the flickering is not being caused by something on the monitor changing, but when the CPU is doing something... Loading up SETI@Home and minimising it so that nothing is happening on screen still causes the screen to flicker.
The only thing I can think of is that my 300W PSU gave up a few weeks ago, and now I'm temporarily using a 250W one on my 1Ghz athlon @ 1.33Ghz, and a load of stuff in my PC. Could it be that?
I think it is: My 3.3V line is 3.01V and the 5V line is 4.6V but the 12V line is 12.6V. If I close down Seti@home the 3.3V line goes up to 3.15V, and the 12V line goes down to 12.3V.
I completely forgot I'd changed PSU, and just then was the first time I've checked the voltages! Damn! I was just thinking about buying myself a nice TFT monitor
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