Is it possible to burn out a monitor like this?/what should I look for in a new one

[Moogles]

I have a beast of a computer. I have a 1.5TB (yup) harddrive, 4 GIGS of DDR3 RAM and a Radeon Saphire 5770 HD 1024mb video card. I use this for gaming, and it has (at my request) double the base requirements for SC2, tho I use it for raiding in WOW. I love it, have no lag in major cities and I can play it on max settings. It is pretty.

The monitor I was using was DVI only, so we had it hooked up with a adapter, as I really didn't want to scrap a perfectly good monitor. It was my husbands, and the better of the two we own. He's had it for a few years, but his computer is rarely on. *It is out of warranty*

Well, the monitor is scrap. After just a few months of raiding. It goes green. Everything is monochrome green. I had to tell my guild at 1am (raid time) that I needed to try to rig up our other monitor, because there was no way I could use it the way it was.

For now, I have my monitor hooked (DVI only as well) up. It's bigger then hubbys but a little older. I really don't want to toast this one, because then we'd have none! (his computer is in the process of having a lobotomy done, so he doesn't need one for now).

I can't use an LED monitor because for me they look super fuzzy. So LCD it is. Am I better off trying to find one that HDMI solely or one that is DVI but with HDMI compatibility via adapter?

[lordlundar]

Point 1 Yes it is possible, albiet no common in LCD monitors. In CRT it's one of the beams of the electron gun going out. For LCD it's the current generator for a particular color died out. This is assuming it's an actual problem with the monitor and not the data cable, which is more common. Try hooking up the (supposed) failing monitor with another data cable and see if that fixes it Could save you a couple hundred bucks.

Point 2 if you need a new monitor, find one with the connection you have and the size you like, paying close attention to it's native resolution. if the native resolution isn't what you want, then when you go to change it it will become fuzzy. Most monitors these days have VGA and DVI-D connections, with some having HDMI (looks like your card, if it's similar to this one has both DVI-D and HDMI)

[It's me]

I'm a bit confused. Does the turning-green monitor have DVI input? Or are you using a DVI-VGA adapter to connect it? If the monitor is VGA check for bent pins on the VGA cables. Also the adapter might be failing, not the monitor.

Also as noted, LCD screens will look fuzzy if you run them at non-native resolutions.

[Moogles]

It does have DVI input however it won't plug directly into my card so we had to get an adapter for it. We tried switching the cable. It flickered to normal and then back to green.

I have that same adapter and cable hooked up to my old monitor (not the green looking one) and it's perfectly fine. So definitely not the adapter.

I was looking at the monitors stores had on display, so I'm hoping they have them on the proper resolutions.