My monitor (which I believe is a vivitron of some sort from gateway, but i'm not at it at the moment) has been dying on me. It 'wobbles' (the display area gets larger and smaller and the screen gets brighter and dimmer) and then turns off (although the on light stays on) and makes the same sound many monitors and televisions do when you turn them off. I beleive this is a hardware problem with the monitor, but i haven't switched monitors to check or anything yet. my question is, has anyone seen this problem and is there any easy fix for it or should i just get a new monitor?

It is possible the problem may be software related. If you can try a different monitor and see the same problem, then software is most likely the problem. Or you can just reinstall or update the drivers.

You can re-install the video card driver, or check for a new driver at the card manufacturers Website. If your video card came with your computer, the computer makers site may have have a new video card.

You can also reset your monitor in the Display Properties window, Settings tab, Advanced button.

Right click on any unused portion of the Desktop and select "Properties" to open the Display Properties window.

You can determine what video card you have by right clicking on "My Computer", then selecting "properties". Select the "Device Manager" tab and click the + sign next to "Display Adapter". Then select the device and click the the "properties" button.

If nothing helps, then I would conclude a new monitor is going to be required.

Here are some links to other monitor Questions and Answers:

Monitor Help

More monitor help needed.

Perhaps something in one of this posts may help.

Good luck with this!

I hope yours is a great day!

I have a NCD monitor model NC1764AA and would like to know where i can get drivers for it. I tell the computer that it is a generic vga monitor but i know that is liniting the resolution that i can get with it. if you know where i can get drivers for it i would appreciate it

http://www.ncd.com/ might help! No monitors listed surprisimg but the only links I could find took me there! Ask them if they do that or if that's a seperate devision!

ivnj

Here are some specs on the NCD 1764AA monitor:

1152 X 900 max resolution
.28 dot pitch
vertical frequency range: 50-90 Hz
horizontal frequency range: 30-82 kHz

The first link is where the specsifications were found.

http://www.cs.utk.edu/~shuford/terminal/crt_news.txt

This lists a used NCD 1764AA monitor for sale.

http://www.iercomputer.com/nc1764aa.html

Hope something here is helpful...
Dwight

not quite sure how the past few relate to my original question....
anyway, for anyone who's curious, I tried all of these suggestions and then some (hooking the monitor up to another computer that it had also formerly worked with) and concluded that it was a hardware problem. eventually the monitor completely gave out so the only thing it would do was make cracking noises. Instead of attempting to get my 15-inch 6-year-old monitor fixed, I managed to to acquire a new, larger, LCD monitor. no regrets whatsoever... this is sweet.