On 11/2/2015 2:46 PM, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> Heh, yeah. I think the whole "burn your monitor" thing is just people
> wanting to cover their butt; I've never heard of anybody actually
> breaking a monitor this way. Sometimes you get some rather weird video.
> Sometimes the CRT makes that weird sound. (Pro-tip: You shouldn't be
> able to *hear* what your CRT is doing!) But mostly you just get a black
> screen.


Please sir, please sir. I've seen it.

When I worked on the rigs. The control room operators would keep the 
same screens on their monitors 24 hours a day. After a few years you 
could see the ghost images burnt into the screens.
As for the high pitch whine. That generally is the fly back transformer. 
I agree you should not be able to hear it but I never had a monitor fail 
because of it. It is not like an incandescent light bulb where that is a 
sign it will fail soon. (For variable values of soon. ;-) )

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Regards
     Stephen

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