just blew up my 17" monitor

[Chris Kloiber]

On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 22:02, Magtanggol Kalingasan wrote:
> hi list,
> 
> I don't know if its fedora's or my monitor's problem, my monitor was unprobed so i entered the Hsync and Vsync from the manual, the installation(fresh install) went smooth. After the installation i was prompted to reboot, the graphical boot-up was nice, i was prompted to create a regular user and all those post install stuff. Then I logged in, saw the GNOME start up. I was begining to navigate the menus when the monitor's view shrunk, then kapooooffff!!!! Then I smelled some burned plastic/stuff coming from my monitor.
> 
> Kinda weird, i used the same Hsync and Vsync on this same machine with the RH9 install. is it FC1's fault? or bad hardware? any similar experience here?
> 
> x86

Ouch.

This situation was common many, many moons ago if the H/V numbers were
off. Almost all modern monitors today will shut themselves down if the
signal received is outside the range they were designed to use. If you
remember ever seeing a message about the sync being out of range (like
when rebooting the machine with the monitor on), then I believe this
burnout was just the monitors time to go. In any event, it's usually
cheaper to buy a new monitor than to try to re-bottle the magic genie
smoke at this point.

-- 
Chris Kloiber
Red Hat, Inc.