[ale] Can Bad Video Settings Fry LCD Monitors?

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

Hi all,

I just had a wild thought after reading an article in computer power user magazine about liquid electrolytic versus solid electrolyte capacitors.  As you may know, many modern motherboards use Japanese solid electrolytic capacitors to increase quality and reliability.

I already knew that.  What I didn't know is that, around 2002, the industry started experiencing waves of returns / complaints about defective motherboards due to a bad batch of capacitors with unstable electrolyte compounds.  This caused a great deal of trouble above and beyond the normal failure rate, and severely disrupted the industry.

http://www.computerpoweruser.com/DigitalIssues/ComputerPowerUser/CP____1311__/

Like I said, long shot, wild thought.  But, maybe, if your monitors are several years old and of similar vintage, they're all starting to experience premature death.  This could be an outside factor that could affect many units with nothing obviously in common but time of manufacture.  The article says this affected monitors, network switches, a/v equipment, and other things.

In any case, I thought it was interesting.

Sincerely,

Ron



Aaron Ruscetta <arxaaron at gmail.com> wrote:

>RESOLUTION:
>(pun in tended)
>
>Thanks to everyone for the feedback.  I had tested these monitors
>with known good sources, both VGA and (where supported on the
>Veiwsonic) DVI to confirm they were dead before asking here.
>Sorry I didn't make that clear.
>
>The replies confirmed my understanding that the circuitry on any
>newer LCD monitor would simply reject any out of spec signals,
>but the supporting opinions were extremely helpful.  I'll just throw
>another spare monitor at my housemate's system and hope it
>lasts for a while. Embarrassingly, I still have 3 more 17" and
>2 ea. 15" units that he can choose from, in addition to an old
>school Mac G3 era monitor.
>
>in peace,
>aaron
>
>
>[-: scissors of courteous file size awareness :-]
>
>



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