| There's two separate problems. There's the shimmering on the screen, which with the new monitor will only happen if the refresh is set higher than 60hz. At 60 there isn't any noticeable shimmering, but I'm going to move it anyway as there is definitely an issue at 75 and 85. That issue is still around. And I don't feel like taking the chance that the magnetic field is going to damage the monitor or computer long term.
The other issue only happened with the old monitor, which somehow was causing the computer to run really slowly occasionally, things would flicker on the screen (the picture itself was fine, but icons would flash on and off, was strange) and other really strange things. Since then there's been two other monitors attached and it's been fine with either of those, even if they are having the shimmering problem as mentioned above. I really have no idea how it would be possible for a monitor receiving interference to cause a computer to run slower, but that was definitely the problem. It's gone now. The tech guy said he's never seen anything like it before.
In the end we are just going to move the computer and monitor a few feet away, that should be more than enough distance. The previous computer and monitor were in that location for 5+ years and only recently did the problem pop up, I think just because the monitor was moved just a few inches closer. Funny how stuff like that works. |