It may be. You may be overdriving your monitor; IOW, running it at a refresh rate and color depth it's not capable of handling. With some monitors, the screen will become unreadable but with others, they'll work for a while but burn out much quicker than they would if run within their limits. That's why inputing the correct monitor specs is so critical. Normally that insures that the monitor won't be overdriven. What make and model monitor is it? Tom cristy wrote: > hmm, my screen is grainy again, I think this monitor must be dying. I have > not changed anything on the display settings, it was looking better now is > bad again. Is that a "death symptom" for monitors? > > christy To unsub 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/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk