Monitor/ hardware/ display problem

[Colin Law]

2009/9/27 David Fox <dfox94085 at gmail.com>:
> I'm now on the laptop because for some reason, my desktop system has
> become unusable due to a possible dying monitor.
>
> Brierly, my desktop system has for a monitor a Viewsonic E90 that up
> until today has been running perfectly. My desktop is a intel quad
> core using an Asus P5QL-EM motherboard, G43 Intel video chipset;
> Everything on the desktop is up to date.
>
> What I noticed soon after playing a video with vlc - and I'm not sure
> vlc can be blamed here - is that my monitor screen suddenlty shows
> only half the screen with a vertical bar on the top of the bottom half
> of the screen. The top half of the screen is no longer visible.
>
> I tried ctrl-alt-F1, got a reasonable looking screen, rebooted, and
> for a while it worked, then it suddenly stopped working - going to 1/2
> screen. I'm leaving it off for now, but does it look like I might need
> a new monitor? The E90 is several years old (I got it secondhand in
> 2005 or 20006, I think.

Many (most?) laptops have an external monitor connector.  If yours
does try the monitor with the laptop.

Colin