My Display Is Becoming Messed Up!

[pusher]

Ever since last night my computer display has started to mess up. I'm not sure what the problem is but whenever I come onto the computer the screen becomes fuzzy sort of like a TV screen; there're a lot of diagonal lines and the screen flickers. After a few minutes of this the screen becomes totally messed up with what looks like static.

I have no idea as to what to do.

Anyone have any insight as to what maybe happening? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

Uhh... specs (if you need them):

WinXP
192mb of Ram
20 gigs of Memory (2.something left)
600 MHZ
Intel Pentium 3

[3rd gen noob]

updated video card drivers?

[pusher]

I haven't updated them in a while but I'll try that now.

[pusher]

I just updated my display drivers and the screen is still flickering.



Any more suggestions?

[3rd gen noob]

have you moved your pc speakers closer to the monitor?
or have you placed any magnetic objects close to the monitor?

[pusher]

Nope. There hasn't been anything metalic next to the monitor. The speakers have always been next to the monitor and I haven't had any problems with it.

I recently (about a month or two ago) installed a new RAM chip could the computers hardware have something to do with it?


:Edit: I forgot a word or two.

[3rd gen noob]

Originally posted by pusher@1 January 2004 - 11:04
I recently (about a month or two ago) installed a new RAM chip could the computers hardware have something to do with it?

nah, doesn't sound too likely...

have you tried degaussing the monitor?

[pusher]

Uhh.... at the risk of sounding dumb... What's degaussing?

[3rd gen noob]

Originally posted by pusher@1 January 2004 - 11:07
Uhh.... at the risk of sounding dumb... What's degaussing?

i'm not sure what the technical explanation is, but it makes the monitor go "ping" and gets rid of some of the crap...

take a look under your monitor options (where you change the width and height of display and such...)

[pusher]

I don't see anything that says "degaussing".