My Display Is Becoming Messed Up!

[cwctv]

It just says Plug and Play Monitor

Yeah it would but whats on the front down the bottom is it just an unknown name ie blank.

[pusher]

Yes it's an unknown blank. But the stickers on it say various things. but uhh....

[cwctv]

Ok I agree with 3rd gen noob if you can't get access to another mon' if will be hard to help out does it have on screen menu's or buttons tring to find the deguass now, now if it needed it the screen would normally be full of nice rainbow colours like a magnet too close and not zig zaggy.

[sparsely]

you never found the Degauss?
don't your monitor have some buttons on the front? maybe one and a little menu comes on the screen?
anyway, it may look like a magnet, it may look like an upside down "U" with a breaky line through it.
anyway, if you press it, your monitor will go all weird for a couple seconds...

it just clears alot of the charges built up around the screen.

if that doesn't work, borrow someone else's montior....if it does the same thing on your comp, it's prolly time to replace your monitor.

[pusher]

Okay I finally found the deguass, when i pressed it the screen began to look like when a magnet gets too close to the monitor but the display is still a distorted. I guess I have to try it on another monitor or replace my monitor.

Thank you everyone! You've been a great help. Happy New Years!

[cwctv]

Can we back up abit here you said

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

so is this video card ONBOARD ?

[sparsely]

I really doubt it's the video...be it a board or chip.
he hasn't done any driver update, and it doesn't seem likely that the graphics whatever would just begin to crap out all
of a sudden.
If there was a problem with RAM it certainly would've showed up before now, more likely in the form of system beeps, blue
screens, and other obvious instability.
However he does appear to have a generic, now-somewhat-aging monitor.

let him try it on another one, then we'll know for sure.

[pusher]

What do you mean?

[cwctv]

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

Do you have a video card or one that is bulit in the motherbord,do you have a dell or compaq what's the name if any of the machine.

[pusher]

I have no idea whether or not it's built into the motherboard (I'm sorry I'm not computer saavy) but it's an ...uhhh....(prepares for uncontrolable laughter) Emachine 600.

Detailed Specs:

Microsoft® Windows® 98 Second Edition
Intel® Pentium® III 600MHz Slot 1 CPU
64MB SyncDRAM (up to 256 MB)
2 USB Ports (1 is on Front)
1 Serial / 1 Parallel / 3 Expansion Slot
Audio In & Out / Game Port on Front
Internet Ready
Sun® StarOffice™ 5.1
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eMachines Network Internet Service
nVidia RIVA TNT2 Vanta 2x AGP with 8MB SDRAM
Crystal CS4281 3D PCI Audio
8x Max. DVD-ROM Drive with Software Decoder
20GB HDD (Ultra DMA EIDE)
3.5" 1.44MB FDD
56K* ITU V.90 PCI Fax/Modem
PS/2 Internet Keyboard/Mouse
Stereo Speakers