Shook loose   Friday, June 22, 2007 | 01:12 AM | by News
forthcoming...  Frilly head  Friday, June 22, 2007 | 04:04 AM |
by So Wednesday, hoping to discover a very obvious and well-
known cause to the problem, I posted about my sparkly monitor.
Alas, no simple culprit was to be found. The hundreds of emails
suggested either a faulty monitor, monitor cable, or video card,
but none of the three suggested causes outweighed the others.
That is to say, no clear answer was presented.  A good number of
the emails suggested that, because the blinking pixels moved
with the images, then the video card was obviously to blame. I
can now tell you, having swapped the Viewsonic and Cintiq
between the two video cards, that that is not the case. After
shutting down the computer, swapping the displays (monitor A to
video card B, and vice versa), and restarting the computer,
though my icons and start menu were now on the Cintiq, the
sparklies remained on the Viewsonic. So the video card as a
suspect is out.  Later today I'll dig