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Can a virus enlarge the display on a monitor.

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Russell Griffiths

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Feb 4, 2002, 6:48:50 AM2/4/02
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Greetings.
I was given a monitor to repair (i am using it at this moment).
I was told that the display increased in size and no longer fitted on the
screen.
After 3 hours of use on my pc, there has been no change in size.
Could a virus possibly cause this problem?

Thanking you,
Russell Griffiths.


Phil Allison

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Feb 4, 2002, 7:12:15 AM2/4/02
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"Russell Griffiths" <ihatej...@origin.net.au> wrote in message
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> Greetings.
> I was given a monitor to repair (i am using it at this moment).
> I was told that the display increased in size and no longer fitted on the
> screen.
> After 3 hours of use on my pc, there has been no change in size.
> Could a virus possibly cause this problem?


** It could be due to reduced EHT voltage and that could be caused by
any of a number of things.
Keep watching it and cycle it on and off too.

Regards, Phil

martin.k...@abri.une.edu.au

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Feb 5, 2002, 8:22:51 PM2/5/02
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On Mon, 4 Feb 2002 23:12:15 +1100, "Phil Allison" <bi...@bigpond.com>
wrote:

>
>"Russell Griffiths" wrote:
>> I was given a monitor to repair (i am using it at this moment).
>> I was told that the display increased in size and no longer fitted on the
>> screen.
>> After 3 hours of use on my pc, there has been no change in size.
>> Could a virus possibly cause this problem?
>
>
> ** It could be due to reduced EHT voltage and that could be caused by
>any of a number of things.
> Keep watching it and cycle it on and off too.

The video card can do this too if it is set to timings incompatable
with the monitor. My tnt2 card did this once I used the settings
software porovided by nvidea. Specifically, my display increased in
size horizontally *once* when I used this software but only for games
is it too lage for the screen.
I think it is more likely to be a settings issue than a virus. But it
is possible that a very malicious virus might do something like this
to blow up the monitor.
This has been a pain to fix under win98 since the options for display
adapter settings keep changing - depending on what options you have
changed.

-:Install:-

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Feb 6, 2002, 4:59:19 AM2/6/02
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Dunno....... but *fungus* can cause a *decrease* in monitor screen size ;)


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