"Jeroni Paul" wrote in message
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Benderthe.evilrobot wrote:
Quite possibly - I'd just about summoned the courage to tackle the
clutter
around the monitor so I could swap it out, I wanted something to eat so
fired up the PC while I was sitting there - suddenly the monitor was
behaving itself.

Other symptoms were starting to emerge; some display aspects were
starting
to look washed out - the cursor would lose contrast while editing email
replies.

Today its suddenly working normally.


I've found these microswitches leak some sort of oil, probably
disintegration of some rubber part inside that turns conductive over time.
This together with high impedance inputs causes false button presses.


That was a different monitor.