Dead monitor?

[Serge]

Situation:
While fixing an ancient pc I hooked it up to a non-ancient monitor and set res to 1024x768 (highest v.card could do).. fixed the unrelated hardware problem and hooked it up to the original ancient monitor.. which turned out.. supports only up to 800x600... you couldn't see anything (once it got to windoz) except few white lines across the screen.. and before I could reboot it to safe mode.. it sorta died. Now when I just turn on the monitor there's 0 responce.

Aftermath: I didn't realize that this could KILL a monitor. Is there any way to recover from this?

[Snuffy!]

LOL, I killed a monitor doing that, but the monitor was already half dead anyways. I tried to push it to 1600x1200, and it went SUPER bright, them made a hissing noise, and died. Heh, it was so funny.

Hmm, I don't know if your monitor is dead, but the way I found out my old monitor was dead, wsa I took the cover off it, and looked around the board, and found a reasonably large black mark.

[etsd311]

OH NO!!
okay...here's the deal.
i tried to overclock my ATI RageFury OEM to 97/105. i had it running perfect at 97/100 and decided to try for a little more.
well, after a while of playing Q3A (~30min), Q3A froze...but i was able to get into my desktop.

figuring 105 was too high for the ram, i opened Rage128Tweaker and put the slider back to 100. BUT, when i hit Apply, my screen went black (to refresh b/c of the diff. speed) but never came back on!! =[

what do you guys think? was it the overclocking that messed it up? if-so, i'm glad it's still under warranty...it's an NEC 19" Accusync.

[CrusaderSean]

hehe, i did that too with my old packard bell monitor, the monitor wasn't too great anyways (did it like 3 or 4 years ago), my old 486 couldn't support 1024x768 either