Parhelia ate my monitor ?

[Formant]

Hi all,

I posted this to the Matrox forums also but I thought I'd post here to.

Received my Parhelia from Matrox yesterday and all was fine for about 10 hours running at 1600x1200x32 85Hz on my 22" iiyama Pro 512. Then Bang!!

Monitor dead, something blew in it. Luckily its being replaced next tuesday but Im a bit worried now that the Parhelia card somehow may have overloaded something and when I get the new monitor its going to happen again.

The Parhelia card is still working as is the rest of my system. I tried the monitor with my G400 Max also just to make sure but still the same.

As I said the monitor was under no particular strain with the new card. I had been running at 1600x1200x32 with the G400 Max for months with no trouble.

Could there possibly be a problem with the card or was it a freak occurance?

Anyone else out there using a 22" iiyama Pro 512 with the Parhelia?.

Thanks

[Ribbit]

Probably just unlucky. I once had an Iiyama 502 die right near the end of its warranty period. The replacement came and died within a day. The replacement for that has been working fine for some months now. Statistics has to hit some of us, or it wouldn't be statistics...

[Formant]

Yes is probably just bad luck, but im thinking if it was a power surge wouldnt the surge protector on my plug strip stop it reaching the monitor.

It just all seems a bit fishy just as I add my Parhelia to the system :/

[103er-Fan]

A friend of mine had that when he replaced his Voodoo Banshee with a Voodoo3 3000:
On the same evening his monitor sometimes shot itself down, the next day it got some very bad yellow touch all over the screen and that couldn't be sorted. Of course he blaimed his new Voodoo that it destroyed his monitor, but IMO this was just bad luck
He got a new monitor three days later, and that works fine till now, he got a GF4 Ti4200 two weeks ago, and this time he wasn't unlucky and the monitor is still working ok

[stcynic]

All negative comments about the Parhelia can now be refuted. It is so powerful it can blow up 22 inch monitors!! Try that with a Radeon.

[UberLord]

LMAO