One of my monitors is getting very dim even though I have the brightness and contrast pumped up as high as they will go. I have to compensate by artificially boosting the gamma with the adobe gamma loader utility that comes with photoshop, probably beyond what the monitor was originally meant to handle. I hate to do this b/c it may decrease the life of the monitor by placing extra demand on the tubes, but in order to see anything, i have no choice. watching movies on it is nearly impossible b/c there is not enough brightness to show any details.


Why is this happening? Maybe the monitor is just old-- i've had it for around 8 years and it's been hooked to 3 different computers over the course of its life, so maybe the cathode tubes are depleted and have less particles to emit, meaning less brightness. i'm guessing here b/c i know very little about how monitors work.

It was (and still kind of is) a damn good monitor, even back in the day when it had many more features than the average monitor on the market then. It's an old NEC multisync c-500.

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[This message has been edited by Pagewizard_YKS (edited May 04, 2004).]

I don't know exactly why, but this is a quite common way for monitors to go out when they get old.

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Yup, it's just old.

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Probably just dying.

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Do you have stereo speakers near by cause the magnets inside of them can sometimes disrupt your monitor... if thats the case just move the speakers away and it should be fine again.

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It's done.

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here's what you should do.

1. Unplug monitor from power and computer.
2. Take it to you the nearest tall building.
3. Drop from any window on the 2nd story or above.

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the only speakers I have anywhere near the computer are made for computers-- those kind are supposed to be magnetically insulated.

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Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next." They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

Just because they are supposed to be doesnt mean they are. My POS Logitech speakers arent.

But even so they wouldnt cause the whole monitor to go black.

Sounds like the moniter is just old. I suggest you just save up some money to get a new one. My old moniter that I had for a whooping seven years (!!!) had finally kicked the bucket last month. I spent about $200 for a new 19" flat screen CRT with a max resolution of 1600x1200 and I've been lovin' it ever since

-- SavageX

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