On 14/11/12 18:43, Bev Nicolson wrote:
Certain the screen resolution is OK. (It is now, for example.)
OK
On 14 November 2012 18:06, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
On 14/11/12 14:48, Bev Nicolson wrote: Absolutely certain the screen resolution is OK. (It is now, for example.) It auto configs when I switch it on. When the screen goes AWOL, what happens? Does the screen LED status light change colour?
What happens? Well, the graphics get very distorted. The top half of the desktop (not the login screen) is three stripes of my wallpaper, and the lower half either black, white, a mix of both or sometimes pinky orange colour. The pointing device/mouse makes it flash like a strobe light.
Sounds to me like the refresh rate is too fast for the monitor, though if the monitor can do 75Hz, I'd be surprised by that. What do others think?
Can you photo it when it happens and post it somewhere, or email me? Alternatively, when it happens, try switching to a console by pressing ctrl-alt-f1 and see if the screen sorts it self out at the text based screen, then press ctrl-alt-f? (6, 7 or 8 - not sure which) to get back to the GUI desktop.
1.0 x Audio - Line-out - 15 pin HD D-Sub (HD-15) - 1.0, Display / video - VGA - Mini-phone stereo 3.5 mm Is the spec so I assume that means VGA. The graphics card is. Bev.
Sounds like it's vga.
Good luck! Steve