Cristy, The symptoms you're describing make me think it's a bad connection with your tower. Triple check the data cable's connection both at the tower & at the back of the monitor. It's best to completely disconnect the cable and reconnect it again to reseat the pins and establish a fresh contact between them and the ports they plug into. Of course, this should be done with the computer turned completely off. If that doesn't help, leave the computer on with your email program showing so you can see some text. Turn the monitor so that you can watch it while you move the cable around at various points along its lenght. You're testing to see if any of the wires inside are faulty, so you'll need to use both hands to grasp and slightly bend the cable at short intervals along its lenght. With both hands wrapped around the cable and your thumbs about 6 inches apart, bend it both ways (both towards and away from you) but no more than 90 degrees. If the monitor seems to react to this at any point along the lenght of the cable, experiment a bit more to see if it's limited to that one location on the cable. If it appears to you that the cable is at fault, replace it. Otherwise, ... If that doesn't narrow it down, you'll have to test the monitor on another system to make sure the monitor isn't at fault. If you get thsis far, be sure to use a different monitor data cable to truly isolate the monitor for testing. If the problem occurs on the second system, the monitor is buggy and should be serviced or possibly replaced. If the monitor runs like a champ there, then the next possibility would be your graphics card. I'll leave that for another reply after seeing how you make out with the above. Peace, Gman http://www.bornagainamerican.org "The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask" ----- Original Message ----- From: "cristy" <poppy0206@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2009 5:57 PM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- screen going crazy again > Help, my screen is losing it again. Colors fading, flickering like. I am > wondering if it is going to totally go on me. Typing this email, the ink > is > fading away. I don't know why it went back to normal and now is doing > this > again so bad. > > help, > Christy ;0 --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To unsubscribe or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To join the PCTableTalk off-topic group, send a blank email to: pctabletalk+subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------