Why does our retro monitor sometimes act up strangely?
Hello.
So this morning my friend and I planned to prepare a retro PC for a New Year's Eve party, and we're going to play Jazz Jackrabbit and Prince of Persia.
And to match the retro look, he bought a used 4:3 format monitor from eBay.
At first everything worked perfectly, but suddenly it started making a strange noise:
And somehow it got worse and worse:
And finally just this:
And that here:
Yes, now the monitor is producing strangely distorted colors. Black somehow turns white, and some silver areas somehow turn green.
At first, it really scared me because I thought it was my laptop's graphics card. But no, when we connected the monitor to other computers, it showed exactly the same distorted image. And the monitor "no signal" display also showed the same distorted color.
But when we wiggled the power cable on the monitor, the picture was sometimes normal again, but then suddenly distorted again.
So I'm curious to know what exactly is wrong with this monitor? Why is it displaying such color distortion?
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Naja Retro-Hardware privately bought can have the one or other Macke.
But there is always a golden rule in everything connected with cables.
For the first time swap cables – and use VGA cable shielded as well as possible.
Such “lusty” effects can be based entirely on bad cables and incorrect image repetition rate.
Oh so – small supplement: If all knits tear, then whistle on the retro PC.
Jazz Jackrabbit with nearly 10 € and Prince of Persia with 2 euros via GOG.com run on modern computers and would most likely have cost less than the retro monitor. 😉
Make an update on the GPU treinerm (or Windows update)
As I wrote on my question, it’s not on PC at all.
Dude, the question is that even the “no signal” sign of the monitor is distorted. Do you want to update the GPU driver on the monitor or how?
“No signal” cannot “repair” a driver of the world.
PrincPesia is quite right.
All right. Everyone makes mistakes, is important when you look at them, and everything is clear. You just did. Super:)
Sorry – Mea culpa – the confusion came more by having apparently clicked the wrong answer button you had confused yourself with Annasophie004.
I therefore deny everything and claim the opposite. 😉
CU around.
I wrote:
That is not possible, most of them know, and the original answer should go more or less to the ridiculous, as the respondent obviously did not read correctly.
So you should be able to see the irony in it, especially as I wrote before:
The age, is a mental knock on the shoulder of the respondent… that even says, “what it says, just “SELBST.”
Bisschen zw. read the lines should be mastered.
LG
No.
Unless you would have very generalized, coarse-motorized thoughts – or forget what you wrote within minutes.
I don’t want to sign it – it’s just the conclusion of the written. 🤷
Isn’t that what I wrote?!
I’d say the picture tube of the monitor is slow but safe. After your problem description, I assume that the screen was probably close to the end of his life, and now almost gives up the mind.
I’m sorry.