can a malfunctioning computer monitor harm the computer's video card in anyway? If the monitor goes completely black, can that harm the card if the computer is left running? Thanks.
can monitor harm the video card
Nov 22, 2006
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Anything is possible, but in my expirence a bad monitor won't hurt a video card.
- Mike
Its happened to me a few times, but then at the time I used to service monitors for a living so I got all manner of weird & wonderful faults to contend with!
highly unlikely, but nothings completely impossible.
NT
unless internal power shorts/high voltage were somehow routed straight to the video cable sets/connectors, it is unlikely to cause damage
I've seen a few cases where malfunctioning monitors caused computers to completely freeze and have to be rebooted.
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CRT flashover can do this or cause the PC to re-boot.
My friend once fried his new,expensive video card..He was juggling cables/pc's around..went to re-connect the monitor cable to the PC,saw a small spark between the monitor cable shield and the vid card connector shield,Whatever it was it fried his vid card. New card,and new-ish LCD monitor,he's now very careful about connecting/disconnecting that monitor now.
Were either the monitor or computer 'hot'?
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