Monitor cause system crash??!!

krazy1 · Dec 10, 2003, 03:34 PM

Ok guys here is a discussion that we are having here at work amongst all the PC techs. I figured I would bring it here
to see what the response was. The discussion is can the monitor cause the PC to lock-up or crash? Now what is being
argued is one Tech says that if someone has a PC and the monitor starts to go bad, that can cause the PC to crash or
even hard lock-up. I totally disagree with this. The monitor is NOT an input device to the PC and only receives the signal
from the PC. There is NO WAY the monitor can cause a PC lock-up or crash UNLESS the monitor is a touch-screen. Then I could
see it causing a problem. But that is not the discussion here. What do you guys think??

**MIG-31** · Dec 10, 2003, 03:45 PM

personally i have voted no. it is just a device that receives the signal from the graphics card with no feedback so just how would it lock up.

if anything for the nearest thing to the monitor would be the graphics card itself which would be the more likely culprit of a lockup.

wertret · Dec 10, 2003, 03:47 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by johnybravo
personally i have voted no. it is just a device that receives the signal from the graphics card with no feedback so just how would it lock up.

if anything for the nearest thing to the monitor would be the graphics card itself which would be the more likely culprit of a lockup.

I have to agree with that.

Oblivious · Dec 10, 2003, 03:49 PM

I voted no.

But I can imagine a case where some very poorly written drivers can cause a system to hang. Monitors do provide some input to the computer: they identify their model number/manufacturer etc. ( But this is the opinion of a layman )

I have never in my life heard of a monitor causing a computer to crash :shrugs: .

krazy1 · Dec 10, 2003, 03:50 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by johnybravo

if anything for the nearest thing to the monitor would be the graphics card itself which would be the more likely culprit of a lockup.

That is what I said too..... It got to be a pretty heated disscusion here lol.....I tried to get him to explain HOW the monitor could cause a crash and his answer was "you just never know....."

**MIG-31** · Dec 10, 2003, 03:58 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Oblivious

they identify their model number/manufacturer etc.

perhaps but that still has nothing to do with the working of the monitor.

BWX · Dec 10, 2003, 04:12 PM

Pretty much no- BUT

What if there was a short in the mobitor and somehow the short traveled back to the vuideo card, then the card locks up- Only thing I can think of..

Set up a PC and dump 10 gallons of water on the Monitor, see if windows locks up- (hard to tell if no picture on the screen)- maybe you would have to have a dual monitor set up and watch the second one.

*I'm using every bit of my imagination here-

**MIG-31** · Dec 10, 2003, 04:14 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by BWX232
Pretty much no- BUT

What if there was a short in the mobitor and somehow the short traveled back to the vuideo card, then the card locks up- Only thing I can think of..

Set up a PC and dump 10 gallons of water on the Monitor, see if windows locks up- (hard to tell if no picture on the screen)- maybe you would have to have a dual monitor set up and watch the second one.

but ain't that kind of cheating

BWX · Dec 10, 2003, 04:26 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by johnybravo
but ain't that kind of cheating

Yeah, kinda. But it could happen. (a short, through dust with high humididty), or maybe faulty wiring inside the monitor, and maybe the monitor got banged around a little in a move from one location to another or something, moving the wires slightly, then when the monitor it switched on- bang- a short that takes out video card and locks windows..

Not something that would happen everyday, maybe once in a lifetime type thing.

peroni · Dec 10, 2003, 04:26 PM

Let me guess, the guy coming up with this nonsense tends to back up his statement by saying "I have been working many years in IT and fixed many problems...blablabla"

These guys are so much fun, if you give them enough attention they will come up with the most incredible stories.
Like there was a guy in my company that claimed some friend of his was able to fit a 2GB zip file into a 700MB cd...
I'm still laughing now

krazy1 · Dec 10, 2003, 04:36 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by peroni
Let me guess, the guy coming up with this nonsense tends to back up his statement by saying "I have been working many years in IT and fixed many problems...blablabla"

These guys are so much fun, if you give them enough attention they will come up with the most incredible stories.
Like there was a guy in my company that claimed some friend of his was able to fit a 2GB zip file into a 700MB cd...
I'm still laughing now

Actually no... he is, though, the only guy on our team who for some reason CAN NOT pass the A+ exam.....

He just likes to be right all the time...hehehe

As for 2GB on a 700MB cd... I have seen 1.4 GB on a 700MB cd but that is with CAB files......... only way the disk can be copied is with Clone CD........ but a zip file?? No way.....

Judas · Dec 10, 2003, 10:57 PM

....yes.... i had one monitor do this... it had some kind of loose wire.... would somehow kill a computer i was working on... it still displayed thing.. but a feedback was occasionally locking it up.... One time it sent the machine into some really crazy beeping.... put a different monitor on it... boom... it took off... thing never crashes now.....