Help! My Screen Is Shrinking

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bluscreendream

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Hi Guys,

Hoping you can help me here, The weirdest thing ever is happening to my sreen size, everytime i go into windows my screen size shrinks horrizontally by a couple of millimetres. I have a Hansol 17inch CRT which I only bought about 18 months ago. I have checked the horizontal and vertical settings on the monitor controls and they are at 100% I even did a degauss but to no avail. The problem applies even if I change the resolution. At the moment I have two 50 millimetre black bars on each side of my screen and they are slowing increasing everytime I boot into windows. Any ideas are greatly appreciated!

p.s. I have an integrated graphics card and its a Packard Bell desktop from around 1999 :crash:

Thanks!
 
Hi,

Thanks for the reply, I tried this, as there is a recall option on the monitor controls but it made no difference, I also reinstalled my display drivers but no change :( Any other ideas?
 
swap monitors with another computer as see the screen still shrinks... if it does its the computer, if it doesn't its the screen!
 
Check and see if there is any magnetic thing near to that Monitor...like Big Speakers or something.....
 
try smacking your monitor... no seriously, my monitor is a CRT and the screen suddenly shrinks sideways. It gets all skinny top-down. Its gotten worse, as in it was what your describing, but lately its pretty bad. So one day i got peeved and slammed my fist on the topside... and presto! a normal display... I think it has something to do with the electron gun in the back of the vacuum being out of... i dunno, out of its mind. When in doubt, give it a good smack. My PSU fan is noisy, and i have to slam my fist on my case to get it all quiet again.

Dont be scared about it either, monitors are brutish objects, so you can give them a pretty good smack and they will work fine afterwards. Hit it as hard as you need to.

But hey on a more serious note, a lot of CRT displays, old OR new seem to have this strange phenonmenon going on, i noticed it a few years ago...

when one row of pixels is brighter (ex. more bright pixels than dark ones) than the one above or below, the row seems to widen compared to darker rows above or below, so if you have a black desktop with a white window open the rows that have the white window seem to be a little more wide. This occurs on TVs, monitors, anything with a CRT. I dont know if this is what you mean exactly, but its non-correctable and is present on all of these in varying degrees. I've noticed it on every monitor i've investigated for this phenomenon. If the monitor is configured to exceed the edges, yu wont notuce the slight warp effect it has.

seriously hit your monitor though, i'm not joking, it really has corrected my weird monitor malfunction. I still do it to this day, its a 5 yeard old Phillips 17'' CRT display and it still works beautifully to this day.
 
Don't smack it too hard though! I have found that thumping computers, video cameras, monitors etc has made them work again, although don't get carried away or you may end up making the hardware more faulty than it was before!

My CRT monitor used to squeak, but when thumped (on the top), it stopped.
 
Indeed, don't hit it too hard. I shouldnt endorse computer abuse :doh: but what i meant is a little love tap. I've heard some pretty crazy stories from tubes exploding, to capacitors overloading and blowing up ect. So you should be cafreful and not fry yourself or other small animals/children/equipment in the process.

But remember, replacing the correct hardware is sometimes a better option. Depending on the extent of its malfunction of course.
 
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