By Derek V. Mackown | IT Technician & Display Hardware Specialist “No Signal” on a monitor connected to a desktop PC that’s clearly running, fans spinning, lights on, keyboard lit up is one of the most disorienting things to see…
By Derek V. Mackown | IT Technician & Display Hardware Specialist Screen tearing in games is one of those things that has a correct fix, but which correct fix depends entirely on your setup. Apply the wrong one and you…
By Derek V. Mackown | IT Technician & Display Hardware Specialist You just bought a monitor. Maybe you saved up for it. Maybe it’s the nicest display you’ve owned. You set it up, you turn off the lights, you open…
By Derek V. Mackown | IT Technician & Display Hardware Specialist Screen tearing is one of those problems that you either live with for years without questioning it, or you see it once clearly and can never unsee it. That…
By Derek V. Mackown | IT Technician & Display Hardware Specialist Color calibration done correctly is not a settings change. It’s a session, a structured sequence of steps that must happen in a specific order because each one builds on…
By Derek V. Mackown | IT Technician & Display Hardware Specialist A monitor that randomly goes dark and comes back is one of the most disruptive display problems I deal with, not because it’s technically complex, but because the timing…
By Derek V. Mackown | IT Technician & Display Hardware Specialist Stuck pixels are one of the few display problems where the success rate of the fix varies so dramatically that knowing the odds upfront changes how much effort you…
By Derek V. Mackown | IT Technician & Display Hardware Specialist Windows 11 does not automatically select the highest available refresh rate when a monitor is connected. It defaults to what it considers safe, which is almost always 60Hz. Your…
By Derek V. Mackown | IT Technician & Display Hardware Specialist That smeared shadow trailing behind every moving object on your screen has a name, and it’s not motion blur, even though people use those terms interchangeably. Monitor ghosting is…
