Vibrating or rattling noise coming from inside a CRT monitor when powered on.

Cause

Solution

Monitor degaussing coil has been activated.

None. It is normal for the degaussing coil to be activated when the monitor is powered on.

Clicking noise coming from inside a CRT monitor.

Cause

Solution

Electronic relays have been activated inside the monitor.

None. It is normal for some monitors to make a clicking noise when turned on and off, when going in and out of standby mode, and when changing resolutions.

High pitched noise coming from inside a flat panel monitor.

Cause

Solution

 

 

Brightness and/or contrast settings are too high.

Lower brightness and/or contrast settings.

 

 

Fuzzy focus; streaking, ghosting, or shadowing effects; horizontal scrolling lines; faint vertical bars; or unable to center the picture on the screen (flat panel monitors using an analog VGA input connection only).

Cause

Solution

 

 

 

Flat panel monitor’s internal digital conversion circuits may be

1.

Select the monitor’s Auto-Adjustment option in the

unable to correctly interpret the output synchronization of the

 

monitor’s on-screen display menu.

graphics card.

2.

Manually synchronize the Clock and Clock Phase on-

 

 

 

screen display functions. To download a SoftPaq that will

 

 

assist you with the synchronization, go to the following

 

 

Web site, select the appropriate monitor, and download

 

 

either SP32347 or SP32202: http://www.hp.com/

 

 

support

 

 

 

Graphics card is not seated properly or is bad.

1.

Reseat the graphics card.

 

2.

Replace the graphics card.

 

 

 

Certain typed symbols do not appear correct.

 

 

 

 

Cause

Solution

 

 

The font you are using does not support that particular

Use the Character Map to locate and select the appropriate

symbol.

symbol. Click Start > All Programs > Accessories >

 

System Tools > Character Map. You can copy the

 

symbol from the Character Map into a document.

 

 

 

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