DreamOutLoud13
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Okay, so my brother just bought a new desktop computer with Vista and everything. An e-machines that came with a nice, big, LCD monitor. Well, since he put the thing together, off and on he's been having a weird vertical flickering band at the left edge of the monitor.
Of course he came to me with the problem, but I don't have any clue what it is, and he's a technophobe himself. I advised him over the phone to unscrew the monitor cable and check the pins, which he did (and which I plan to repeat as soon as I can get over there in person), and besides a bit of styrofoam stuck in there, everything seemed to be normal, and the problem was not fixed. I also tried to get him to adjust his monitor settings, though they all seemed to be correct too (though he said something about getting a message saying they weren't? I don't know, I'm not there.)
Any clue what this is and what can be done to fix it? Is it something absurdly simple like adjusting the settings, or should he just take it back and exchange it?
Any thoughts/expertise would be wildly appreciated. I'll give you cookies.
Of course he came to me with the problem, but I don't have any clue what it is, and he's a technophobe himself. I advised him over the phone to unscrew the monitor cable and check the pins, which he did (and which I plan to repeat as soon as I can get over there in person), and besides a bit of styrofoam stuck in there, everything seemed to be normal, and the problem was not fixed. I also tried to get him to adjust his monitor settings, though they all seemed to be correct too (though he said something about getting a message saying they weren't? I don't know, I'm not there.)
Any clue what this is and what can be done to fix it? Is it something absurdly simple like adjusting the settings, or should he just take it back and exchange it?
Any thoughts/expertise would be wildly appreciated. I'll give you cookies.