I am at work right now looking for solution to my monitor at home. The screen is so wavy that I cannot read the text very good. My 5 year old plays on the computer a lot. And all of a sudden the other day the screen was flickering. It looks as if the screen is rippling water. Anyhow I assured all cords were in place solid and tired to adjust the htz, but there was no drop down to do so. ANy idea what I can do to fix this? I was thinking if i needed a new monitor the whole screen would be out. thanks Kelly

If it's a laptop, you can plug in a monitor to see if you can get a signal there. That might tell whether the problem is the graphics card or the screen. There's a Fn/Fkey combination that turns signal on to both monitors; you may need to press that combination to use the monitor.

Sometimes this problem is produced because the screen is set up to a display setting to high for the monitor, and there are wavy pictures, and almost impossible to read.
Other trhan that, could be a bad monitor cable.
Hope this helps

Hi!

Hot keys must be enabled and by accident it was pressed.

try pressing CTRL + ALT the arrow keys...(left,right,up.down)

Hope it helps!

kdoran121, Some component part has failed inside your monitor!! Possible verticle drive signal is "bleeding" into the horizontal signal is causing your "wavy effect" to occur on screen. Electronic technician will need to troubleshoot problem down to "component level" to solve monitor problem. That's my best guess on this one. You could try to swap-in a known good monitor to your pc, just to prove that the monitor is the problem and NOT your pc!!! Yes, I still have a 9 year old CRT monitor connected to another pc and if and when it FAILS, I will send it to the curb on trash-day!!! 12fixlouie

Well in monitor you can do one thing - disconnect the monitor cable*(VGA Cable) from the tower and chk still if u have the same faint screen that means monitor gone bad if not than uninstall the Grapics Driver and shut down computer... if u have internet than restart and go to device manager ( Run - devmgmt.msc) under display adapter right click on grapics name and update driver.

you need to install drivers with the new video card but first you must uninstall the old one-definately a driver issue(assuming all cables are good,etc)

Although I still have the problem to a slight extent (very slight wavering of the vertical lines going from dark to light or white) reducing the contrast from 100% to 80% seemed to do the trick. Although this monitor is on the way out, it has lasted about 7-8 years now, at least it will keep going for a while.

sounds like your convergence IC's have finally gone bad.. they seem to last 5 years on average.. have a look here: http://cmpalmer.blogspot.com/2006/11/fixing-my-own-tv-part-ii.html

Hi...there,
Well... sure it fixable, but it is going to cost you a bundles... Since you own this monitor for about 10 yrs. It's time for you to give yourself a new LCD monitor for the Holidays... :) Have nice day!

Hello LaURA, THIS IS COMMON.
NO pc STATED,,just and external monitor.
VGA or DVI- cable?
first off it is old and tubby square 4:5 screen
13 year old it fact. 2005 made, and has CCLF backlamps back then,, all did,. then.
and all are dead now or:
1: dim. (your Grey)
2: yellow for white screens.
3: intermittent. (or strobes)
4: dead.

all are. if used for 8hours a day for 5 years.
so in your case you are lucky it works at all.
buy a monitor for less than cost of repairs.
Your exact monitor working sells for $10 on fleabay,.

the below link proves you can buy one cheaper
that the repair of yours, $150 at least to repair
$40 to buy, easy econ101 decision?


https://www.walmart.com/search/?page=1&query=+monitors+refurb&sort=price_low#searchProductResult