On almost all modern monitors if it will display on the screen, then it shouldn't hurt the monitor no matter what settings your running it at. Some older monitors though cant handle it and supplying the wrong settings can potentially screw things up, for example, I had an old packard bell monitor that I toasted because I ran it at too high a resolution and refresh rate and it started overheating, the tube would get VERY hot on that high resolution, and finally I decided to strap a ran up ontop of it to cool it off... one day the fan died and the monitor over heated sevely and before the automated shutoff safety thing kicked in it screwed something up, and now I can only run it for maybe 10 minutes on any resolution except 640x480 before it starts shutting off sparatically. Keep in mind though, this monitor was quite old... if I remember correctly, manufactured around 1993 or 1994. Like I said, most modern monitors can handle what you give them... if you supply an unsupported setting, they just wont display anything and the monitor automatically shuts off, old ones though, if you supply the wrong settings, they will get all weird and stuff starts scrolling all over the screen and zigzagging every which away... not good. Most of the times that wont imidiatly DAMAGE the monitor, but I cant say that its good for it either.
Last edited by Oxagast; 02-05-2006 at 11:09 PM.
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