David wrote:
Your statement would be true if the monitors did not have a shutdown if they
see the wrong scan rate. Only a very few el-cheapo and old (8 years or
older) monitors do not have immediate shutdown if an incompatible scan rate
is being input.


"LASERandDVDfan" wrote in message
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A bad video card can damage the high voltage sections on a computer

monitor if

the card cannot deliver the video signal at a compatible scan rate. -

Reinhart



Both monitors are approx 5 years old, and are 'budget' monitors (good
picture, FST tube etc, but not name brand).

I presume if the video card was outputting an unacceptable scan rate
(rather than the set value), even if the monitor did not shutdown it
would not display the video correctly?

Many thnaks for everyone's help,

Chris

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