I recently had to reboot & then while it was rebooting the monitor did it's "brr" noise; if you know what I mean (think it's the sound it would make if you turned it on at the power while still having the monitor power switch on)...anyways, on the screen reappearing it looked much "whiter" looking, seems that the brightness has gone way too far high or something, but i've fiddled with my brightness & can't fix it!

Then after a while screwing around the screen just went really black all of a sudden (shortly after a reboot)....But now the monitor is back to the whitish color again after rebooting etc...

I'v tried doing everything & I just can't fix it....even resetting my monitor

Also, I noticed that when I press the button to reset my monitor the screen is all black which is natural but, I can notice several lines going across the sreen sideways on an angle....if you look real close at the desktop you can also see them there too.

I tried taking screenshots of the screen at both whitish & black times but then when I looked at the screenshot on my bro's PC it looked normal...thats weird...why does it look normal? Something weird is going on!

I have a 17" Sony CPDE 220 (Flat) monitor.

Thanks for any help.

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Processor: Intel Pentium III (3) 866
Midi-Tower: AOpenATX Case w/300W Power Supply
Motherboard: Asus CUSL2-C
RAM: Hyundai/Legend 256MB PC-133 SDRAM
Hard Drive: 20 Gb Quantum Fireball AS 7200 RPM UATA 100
DVD/CD-ROM: Pioneer DVD-105S 16X DVD-ROM (Slot-Load)
Monitor: 17" Sony CPDE 220 (Flat)
Floppy: 1.44 Floppy Drive
Video Card: ATI RADEON 64MB DDR VIVO
Sound Card: Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! DE 5.1
Creative Optical Digital I/O 2 Card
Keyboard: Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro
Mouse: Ms Intellimouse Optical with intellieye
Speakers: Midiland S4 8200 5.1 Dolby Digital Speakers (Using ADS-3000 Decoder)
Modem: 512K ADSL
Microsoft Windows 98SE

[This message has been edited by DVD-Man (edited January 03, 2002).]