Around every winter, my desktop CRT I got a few years ago, would start jittering the pixels on the screen. It usually happened around the time the heat started kicking on,that and my monitor being in a kind of corner alone, building up heat more than usual. Everything would be fine tho if i cooled off my room by opening the window.
Well this year about the same time, I was moving my monitor and I accidentally set it down too hard or something, and then when the heat kicked on like a day or two later, I started getting jittering pixels. But it was more than usual. I tried to cool off my room and pull the CRT back away from the wall, but it hasn't stopped the pixels from doing this. And for the past week or so, it's just been getting a little bit worse and worse it seems.
It just looks like on the screen, like some of the pixels are going in and out, or even dodging side to side maybe, like sort of wavy. I took a microscope and got a video of the pixels up close.
Does anybody know what I could maybe do to get this fixed or whats going on with it? i called a tv repair shop and they offered to re-cap it, then i looked that up and it is just the answer to solving 90% of the problems with them. I wondered tho really how the shop could figure out which caps i needed or if he could find a cap set for this monitor.
this is an optiquest q115. 21 inch. i run at 1600x1280 @76hz. the monitor owner manual shows this monitor is build to perfectly handle that, thats how I figured out the refresh rate, whatever the math problem it is you do with the information it gives.
I got this monitor off of a photograph shop. Also when I got the monitor, there was what appeared after closer inspection and sometimes for what reason I dont know, if its the colors showing, there seems to be like, what appears to be a water drop that slid down the screen. this line, will move side to side a bit as the colors change or scenes change on my computer screen. it doesnt change anything with a different videocard.
Heres the video
https://streamable.com/47xjjbanyone got any idea what could be doing these things? thats the magnifier against the screen, but not near the "water tear" thing, just over differtn spots, some are what looks like text jittering some other parts parts of the screen that seem to be looking good.
Before I taek it to a repair shop for something that might not be able to get fixed or maybe something else, just so I can get an idea before i throw money at this. Id like to keep it because its a high enough of a resolution and refresh rate that I can use it. and the brightness is still good.
thanks