Everything Broke Today. So, How Was Your Day?

"The monitor has both digital and analog inputs, and my PC has both an Nvidia card and onboard video. So I dig out an analog cable and try the onboard video. No difference. I power-cycle the monitor. No difference, except it's getting increasingly messed up. Now it looks like this: bratgrrl.com/screen2.jpg

"So I think maybe I'm looking at a dying monitor. That would be very sad, because it's a nice Viewsonic 22" LCD and it's only a couple of years old. But it's still under warranty, so it's only partly sad. But I'm getting ahead of myself, because I haven't tried it on a different PC yet."

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