On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:39:35 -0600 Frank Cox <theatre@xxxxxxxxxxx> took out a #2 pencil and scribbled: > I'm starting to think I have a different problem with this > computer, that's not operating-system related. > > I occasionally have slowly-moving horizontal lines on my monitor > that show up on the lighter coloured parts of my screen and > travel upward. It seems to come and go, and looks for all the > world like electrical interference. The lines are very small, > maybe 15 per inch, and are mostly visible on the top half of the > monitor. On a smaller monitor I might not even notice them, but > on this 22" wide screen monitor it's distracting. > > I moved the computer further away from the monitor and changed > its orientation but that didn't change anything. I also tried > plugging the monitor and computer into different/separate > electrical circuits and tried it without my UPS as well. > > Is there anything else I should be trying? I'm running out of > ideas. > Is this an intermittent problem? So you have an device like a cell phone near the monitor? My Cingular phone does that to my monitor, while my T-mobile phone for work does not. Sorry I don't have more to offer in the way of advice. HTH -- ethericalzen@xxxxxxxxx Life is a prison, death is a release
