The images on my screen seem to shimmer or flicker and give me a headache - is there anything I can do?

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hello i was changing the settings on my computer and my older son was watching me I went to take a break and the tool bar is hugh and some other things are totally messed up on my screen and i do not know what to do to fix it ....... please help me out ...... thank you so much

I have a dell 23" lcd tv I am using this as a computer monitor. I have a fuzzy pink edge all around the screen about an inch wide and the screen flickers (like a low refresh rate) I am connected with a dvi and I understand the screen should not flicker. Is the lcd bad? its about 2 years old

A new Sony LCD tv - 26 inch seems to run quite a bit hotter than a tube tv. --- it even has a fan and hot plastic (subtle) can be detected in front.Are LCDs known for more toxic outgassing? Does it lessen, and is it a concern - worth going to a different type of tv. I seem to get a headache from it- but it was expensive.

thanks,.

Michael

FreekLord, I think the problem is the font size. To change the font size go to display->appearance->advanced. Now click on the bar tha comes down and is called Item (it will be set to desktop). Then go to icon, now you can change font, font size and icon size. I use Tahoma. Icon size 31 and font size 8. This may also help tawania, if not, there are many other options in what I just explained that will because I have had both of these problems.

I put my system into standby today. When I came back 4 hours later it didn't turn on with mouse or keyboard input. So I rebooted it. The icons had all lined up on the left and they had a flicker (although the desktop background did not). In other programs, information in the window is fine, but the border and menus flicker. I suppose it is more of a regular flash once every 5 seconds or so.

No settings have changed. Refresh rate is 85hz.

Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks

On Friday I started to use my new LG LCD monitor. There was a smell like someone was smoking something in the room, but no one could. Later that night I became ill. Saturday early morning I was taken to the ER, I have not been that ill in many years. After 3 hours I was released, and the Flu was suggested.

Sunday morning I turned on the computer and sometime later I went back into my computer room
& bedroom. The fumes hit me quickly. I immediately became ill, nausea, dizzy and felt very ill again. So I immediately turned off the monitor, opened doors and windows and stayed on the living room couch. I began to feel better and recovered quickly.

I am now looking for a testing facility to find out what I was exposed to, and then find out if any long term effects are known.

Beware of new monitors. If it smels, gives you a headache or anything peculiar STOP USING IT!
My medical bills will easily be more than 10 LCD monitors.

I found a similar problem that caused me to become nauseated and dizzy. But instead of the cause being the monitor, I found it was the air contained inside of the computer being outputted by the fans in the back of the computer. When I better vented the room, added a top notch air cleaner and set my power settings such that the computer would effectively turn off after 15 minutes on non-use, my symptoms have largely dissappeared. After later using a laptop computer in a different and well vented room, I found most all my systems disappeared.

Although a number of people have suggested the problem relates to the monitor, I'm convinced that in many cases it's the chemicals and heavy metals that are used to manufacture the boards and contained within the computer (e.g., mercury, leaded plastics, pcbs, solder, to name just a few of the many hundreds) that are causing the problem. I imagine if the federal government tested the output from the back of the computer being pumped out by the cooling fans they'd find that many toxins are being outputted into your living or working spaces. It's funny that computers must be carefully disposed of due to the many toxins contained in them, but it's okay to use them in the house and working spaces even though they're heated up to relatively high temperatures (releasing at least some of the toxins into the air) and then cooled by fans that pump these toxins and heavy metals out into your local environment.

I'd be very interested to know whether any objective organization has ever checked this out?

Try switching from the VGA cord and using the DVI cord instead. Worked for me.

I am the proud new owner of a 46 inch lcd1080 as I acquiessed to my husband during a mental lapse. I now have the behemoth stinking up the family room and want to know how long it will take to outgas with the windows open, and if the danger passes once it outgasses. Please answer as I am nervous, I have a child.Thanks.

Can the flicker be 'measured',strobed or videoed in some way so that I can avoid the 'Headache Test'and persuade the non seers to FIX IT?

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