[Lynx Cat]

This is my monitor screen:

http://www.nets2go.co.uk/pics/cheap-curtains.jpg

Except it's got only 4 wrinkles. Otherwise, it looks just like that, crumpled up into about 50% its horizontal size, in the middle of the screen. It's like that all the time (even during memory test at startup), and no fiddling with OSD settings can help any. It's a sorta old tube monitor (not LCD or anything like that). My guess would be that something is physically FUBAR'd with it.

Any suggestions? Other than getting a new monitor, which I've already requested, so I'm thinking if I can do anything about it myself while I wait for the people responsible to get off their fat lazy asses and do something about it.

[Benevolance]

If it has a degauss button, give that a try. But it sounds like the monitor is mostly dead. Get the government to give you a new one.

I had a problem like that with an old monitor years ago, and I think the problem ended up being the connector on the back was wrecked. Someone had tried to jam it in the wrong way and broken several of the pins.

[Lynx Cat]

Degauss doesn't change a thing. I'll look at the connector - I've seen people do something similar to a mouse, so it wouldn't surprise me if that was the problem. (And no, I couldn't put the pins in the mouse connector back into place despite much trying, and it had to be trashed. And it was the only good mouse we had. At least that forced the people responsible to greenlight buying new mice - though it would be nice of them to tell me someone was already on it BEFORE I blew my own money on a mouse.)

[Lynx Cat]

Problem solved - they changed my monitor. I guess that was the only way. (BTW, the connector looked fine.) Thanks anyway :P