Monitor behavior - end of life?

I have a Dell 24" LCD monitor at work. It is several years old. I am worried that it might be about to go bust (and I’ll never get a new one this big, with finances they way they are).

An example of the behavior: I am in IE, and I call up a website. Maybe it’s slow for one reason or another (our connection gets slow from time to time, don’t know why). So I kill a few of those seconds clicking over to my Outlook email, leaving the IE window at full screen behind.

When the website comes up, it will partially take over the screen, so some chunks of the screen are IE and some are Outlook. It’s easy to fix this condition so that I am looking at only one application, but I am wondering if this behavior is a sign of impending monitor doom. It does seem to be happening more often lately.

Any monitor experts out there?
Roddy

Sounds like a video card problem to me.

I agree, it doesn’t sound like a monitor problem.

If you can, plug the monitor into a different computer and see if the problem persists (or plug a different monitor into your computer).

This does not sound at all like a monitor problem to me.

That sounds like a software problem to me. Make sure you are fully patched and have the latest video drivers for your card. It’s almost certainly not the monitor. It doesn’t really sound like video card to me either given those symptoms.

You may have something else going on (virus? corporate big-brother software?) that’s chewing up resources and slowing things down.

Not a monitor problem. More like a computer resource problem, maybe the video card or memory issues. Since you’re using IE, could even be a Windows problem.

Thanks, I will have my video card and drivers checked. Those I can get replaced, if necessary.
Roddy