new 19" LCD

fade2green514

fade2green514

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its nice... 8ms and everything blah blah...
i just want to know how to preserve it. i set the monitor to shut off after two minutes but i want to know what i should clean it with, and any other tricks i can use to make it last longer.
thanks in advance *shuts off monitor* just kidding, im not THAT worried about it. lol:D
 
Without a signal lcds will go right into a standby mode unlike crts. Generally a very mild cleaner and a soft cloth not paper towel is used for dusting and cleaning the screen itself. Lcds have a far longer life time then crts where you don't have to worry about that as much(crts=17,000 to 19,000hrs. - lcds=50,000hrs. average).
 
I find LCD monitors much much better and easier to clean.. i dont have to do much to mine.it pretty much takes care of itself.. just wipe it lightly from time to time
 
The soft faced ones are those you have to go easy with. Although they have a flexible surface too much finger pressure will leave marks. The hard faced ones are more tolerant to pressure to a degree when cleaning the screen with a mild solution only. You certainly want to avoid anything with an abrasiveness.
 
are you serious? i heard LCD's last less time... i mean, my family has had the same TV for years and i have a 17" CRT sitting right across the room... it was bought with a pentium 2 in a prebuilt system so i assume its more than five years old...
i guess ill google it and read the manual that came with it... maybe that'll say what to clean it with.
 
the windex w/ water should be fine, i think mine said to use a soft (microfiber like) cloth with very mild cleaner or just warm water
 
You should only need a damp not thoroughly soaked cloth to clean off the surface on an lcd screen. Just be careful using glass cleaners of any type. The surface on a soft faced lcd is a form of vinyl not glass. You don't want to use anything that interacts with that. Don't expect all makes and models of lcds to reach the 50,000hr. life span. The early ones along with those makes that never saw improvements still see less while still having a backlight that out lives a crt. A crt and tv set are two different types of cathode ray tubes there. Some tvs have lasted over 20yrs.! http://www.eurokiosks.org/eloppt/sld020.htm
 
yea i just used coffee filters like i do on my heatsinks. i got a whole bunch lying around. anyways, its clean now.
but im wondering about its suggested settings... its suggested that you run it at 1280x1024 which is good but it suggests that you run it at 60hertz, and im running it at 75hertz... will this effect it at all?
 
fade2green514 said:
yea i just used coffee filters like i do on my heatsinks. i got a whole bunch lying around. anyways, its clean now.
but im wondering about its suggested settings... its suggested that you run it at 1280x1024 which is good but it suggests that you run it at 60hertz, and im running it at 75hertz... will this effect it at all?
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I run at 1280x1024 75htz even when running a few games here all the time. If problems are seen in a game or other software you simply reduce the setting temporarliy. For text reading the better screen would be at 75htz. This is the one drawback with higher resolutions at times where you seemingly have to go over a screen with a magnifying glass to read small print! Fortunately Mr.Gates was thoughtful enough to put one in Windows. :P
 
refresh rates don't matter with LCD's. Change the settings between 60hz and 75hz, theres no difference. It's because LCD's have a constant on image, only CRT's are affected by refresh rate. This is the reason why when you video tape a screen, CRT's will have a flicker, or appear to have moving bars, where as LCD's come out perfectly fine.
 
"LCD displays
Much of the discussion of refresh rate does not apply to LCD monitors. This is because while a phosphor on a CRT will begin to dim as soon as the electron beam passes it, LCD cells open to pass a continuous stream of light, and do not dim until instructed to produce a darker color. Pertaining to LCDs, see also response time." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refresh_rate

"Since LCD monitors do not employ phosphors, refresh rate is not a concern. Basically, the transistors in the LCD remain open or closed as needed until the image changes. This can be a point of confusion for some consumers, however, since most graphics cards still "ask for" a refresh rate setting. This is due to the analog nature of existing graphic cards (see "Inputs" section) and their support for CRT displays. While refresh rates do not apply to LCD monitors, most LCDs are set up to accept any settings from 60Hz and above." http://www.necdisplay.com/support/css/monitortechguide/index04.htm
The above definitions should define this as clear as an lcd.
 
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