 Monitor oddness
Someone mysteriously kicked one of our $3500 22" SGI monitors briefly into the aether last night. Sadly it's flight was short-lived as monitors were not made to float. Or hit the ground with force.
Anyway, so we're looking up monitor repair hints and tidbits on the net and we find out that there are two kinds of CRTs: northern and southern hemisphere.
Apparently the Earth's magnetic field is strong enough to adversely affect the tube, so they're fitted with a correcting ring depending on where they're destined. If you have a northern hemisphere monitor, chances are good that no amount of software correction will help you.
Amusingly, the easiest fix is to turn your monitor upside down and then use something like NVidia's tools to rotate it in software. |