Monitor problems - heavy black on white "streaking"?

mandrill

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I've got a Samsung Radeon x300 monitor. It's about 9 months old. I'm running it off Windows XP.

Lately I've noticed heavy "streaking" of black on white and white on black text. Whn I type this line for example, I get a black streak about 1 inch to the right.

Can anyone tell me what the problem might be and how to fix it?

Thanks.
 
first of all, I take it it's an LCD not a CRT?

And yes, your problem is most likely pixels dying.

Contact the OEM for warranty work. I know viewsonic has a loner program but I don't know about Samsung.....

One thing you might want to try is to change your resolution settings.

Right click on your desktop
Click on properties
Click on the tab market Settings
Look at the bottom for the resolution, change it to something else and see if the problem persists. If it does, time to get it fixed before your warranty runs out.
 
lol, I have the same monitor and the same problem. I just give it a good whack on top and it goes away. Sometimes takes a couple of whacks about 5 minutes apart, but then it's good.
 
a 1 player said:
lol, I have the same monitor and the same problem. I just give it a good whack on top and it goes away. Sometimes takes a couple of whacks about 5 minutes apart, but then it's good.
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LOL oh man, next thing you'll be telling us 1,000 uses for duct tape lol....
 
a 1 player said:
lol, I have the same monitor and the same problem. I just give it a good whack on top and it goes away. Sometimes takes a couple of whacks about 5 minutes apart, but then it's good.
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Player: you are a little old for whacking it.
 
tboy said:
first of all, I take it it's an LCD not a CRT?

And yes, your problem is most likely pixels dying.

Contact the OEM for warranty work. I know viewsonic has a loner program but I don't know about Samsung.....

One thing you might want to try is to change your resolution settings.

Right click on your desktop
Click on properties
Click on the tab market Settings
Look at the bottom for the resolution, change it to something else and see if the problem persists. If it does, time to get it fixed before your warranty runs out.
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Oh dear. First, what's an "LCD not a CRT"? And when you say "pixels dying", do you mean they die or they are dyed?

Of course, right now it's working just peachy with no streaking whatsoever.
 
oagre said:
I've got a Samsung Radeon x300 monitor. It's about 9 months old. I'm running it off Windows XP.

Lately I've noticed heavy "streaking" of black on white and white on black text. Whn I type this line for example, I get a black streak about 1 inch to the right.

Can anyone tell me what the problem might be and how to fix it?

Thanks.
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Are you sure you aren't using Super Kleener?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcfU_AGGRKk
 
Kyra_to said:
Are you sure you aren't using Super Kleener?
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No, it's definitely an internal problem, not surface.
 
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