Please Help Monitor issues

[rescueme911]

Hey all,

About 3 weeks ago I started having intermittent issues with my display.
It's a Samsung 2033SWPLUS and about 2 1/2 years old.

First, the screen resolution would suddenly change and I'd have to go into to control panel to change it back. That lasted for a couple of weeks.

Now, for the last week the screen keeps flickering to black.
It only lasts 1 or 2 seconds and when it comes back the windows are no longer full screen.
If I happen to be watching a video when it flickers, it freezes and comes back with a 2 inch black stripe up the left hand side.
Now I'm stumped.
Does anyone know if this is something I can fix or am I going to be up for a new monitor ?.

Thanks & Regards,

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[truenorth]

Can you try the monitor on another computer to help determine if it is the monitor or something else (like your video card) on the computer?truenorth

[giardmi09]

I agree with truenorth, try another monitor before anything else.

It only lasts 1 or 2 seconds and when it comes back the windows are no longer full screen.

<-- This seems odd. In my experience it does this when your graphics driver fails, and then is recovered seconds later. What operating system do you use? I know that in Windows 7, if your graphics driver fails, it will notify you once it has recovered.

[rescueme911]

Thanks for your suggestions can you give me some following steps of it.

[Allan]

Your signature (which we will have to remove, by the way) says you are a tech support specialist and you don't know how to swap monitors?

[Raptor]

Actually, it says that he provides the problems. Which would make a lot of sense if he doesn't know how to swap a monitor around!