Why oh god why T_T

[Fuerte]

My screen burned out. The guy that came to fix it said that it was cuz I played my online games at something 85 setting. What did he mean? And when I get a new screen, what setting should I play aRO with? Because this new screen is comnig out of my own pocket ~_~

[Kris108]

85 something?  Setting of what?  I worked at a Computer SHop before, so maybe I'll know.

[Fuerte]

Dunno but it had somethnig to do with the screen. My mom also heard him, and she thinks he said "watts". Maybe thats it? In any case, I want to prevent something like this from happening again

[Kris108]

Well, if it's the electric current, it should have burned out sooner.  But maybe it's the intensity of the screen's colors/lights.  Maybe if you could lower it down, or keep the default settings of the screen.

[Denia]

It sounds like your screen refresh rate is too high. Try setting it to 60 hertz (average setting)

[Kris108]

It sounds like your screen refresh rate is too high. Try setting it to 60 hertz (average setting)

Sounds like I was waaay off ><

[AceJay]

It sounds like your screen refresh rate is too high. Try setting it to 60 hertz (average setting)

Either that or he was using an unsupported power cable.

[Denia]

It sounds like your screen refresh rate is too high. Try setting it to 60 hertz (average setting)

Either that or he was using an unsupported power cable.

That's the only thing I can think of considering when he said "85 something"

[Kris108]

Ask the technician again.  Then, come back to us.

[AceJay]

Yeah.

Hmm, Fuerte, did you have seperate refresh rates for games? If you boosted them on your video card's control panel, make sure you reset them to 60 AS SOON as your get the new monitor.

@Kris: What?

[Kris108]

I meant to say: ask the Technician about what the "85 something" is.  From there, he can ask him more questions, or ask us.

[CrueZ]

Yup sounds like a refresh rate to me too. Try not to use too high a setting or you'll fry your monitor, especially during gaming. A high refresh rate is good of course, but not to the extent where your monitor dies.

Like suggested above, the default is 60Hz, and it's what most people use.

1) Right click on Desktop, go to "Properties".
2) Hit on "Settings" tab.
3) Click on "Advanced".
4) Hit the "Monitor" tab.

You'll find it here.

[Fuerte]

I would do that except for one thing: Without a screen, I wouldn't know what the hell I'm doing. Till I get a screen, I'm helpless. And neither I nor my sis have his number, maybe my mom, but I can't call her at work. But tonight I might go and get a new screen. As for the 60Hz, I have no idea what that means, but maybe thats what it is. At any rate, I'll ask the repair dude and he'll help. I'll still check out what you guys mean, but I don't know much about computer mechanics.

[Velocity]

Meh this happened to me before ;-;
Refresh rate was the problem

[Fuerte]

Sorry for bumping an old topic, but I finally got a new monitor, and its refresh rate was already 60 Hertz. But I'm still afraid that the monitor may burn out some other way.


Edit: I asked the guy about what should I do, he said I need to make the settings for aRO 65 megahertz. I don't really know how to do that, I clicked on the Setup icon, but nothing there says anything about megahertz, just 640 X 480 X 16, uses 2D sound, 2 Speaker, the sound frequency is 22k, sound bits are 16 bit, the sound channel is 16, it checks on voodoo3 users, uses lightmap, enables fog, and both sprite and text details are at full. None of that said anything about megahertz =/.