On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 13:01:01 -0700 (PDT), Lin Tse Hsu <evfreek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Here's how you can tell if your monitor was damaged by > XFree86. Pull the horizontal output transistor, and > check the CE junction in both directions. If there is > a dead short, the clicking is caused by the power > supply shutting off its over current contactor when it > cannot source the shorted load. You can replace the > dead HOT, but I would recommend buying a new monitor > which includes protection circuitry that prevents junk > software from drawing the flyback circuit off > resonance and overheating the HOT. I have personally > toasted 5 monitors with Linux, and 1 with Windows. Wow, what are you doing to fry your monitors? I've been using computers for a long time now, and have been through just about every O/S I can get my hands on... but have never toasted a monitor. I'm seriously curious as to how you can cause this with a released (or even beta) Operating system. Actually, come to think of it, i've only ever had one monitor fail over the years, and it was a cheap one, I forget the name now., but it had a notorious problem of one part failing - so I always just chalked it up to that, instead of blaming windows (which is what I would have liked to do).
