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.
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17 years ago
can monitor harm the video card
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17 years ago
Anything is possible, but in my expirence a bad monitor won't hurt a video card.
- Mike
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17 years ago
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!
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17 years ago
highly unlikely, but nothings completely impossible.
NT
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17 years ago
unless internal power shorts/high voltage were somehow routed straight to the video cable sets/connectors, it is unlikely to cause damage
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17 years ago
I've seen a few cases where malfunctioning monitors caused computers to completely freeze and have to be rebooted.
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17 years ago
CRT flashover can do this or cause the PC to re-boot.
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17 years ago
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.
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17 years ago
Were either the monitor or computer 'hot'?